Holy Scripture
3 Maccabees 3:1
Source: Septuagint
Original
1On discovering this, so incensed was the wicked king, that he no longer confined his rage to the Jews in Alexandria. Laying his hand more heavily upon those who lived in the country, he gave orders that they should be quickly collected into one place, and most cruelly deprived of their lives.
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— 3 Maccabees 3:1 —
2While this was going on, an invidious rumor was uttered abroad by men who had banded together to injure the Jewish race. The purport of their charge was, that the Jews kept them away from the ordinances of the law.
3Now, while the Jews always maintained a feeling of unswerving loyalty toward the kings,