4 Maccabees 18:9
Source: Septuagint
9And these my children, having arrived at maturity, their father died: blessed was he! for having sought out a life of fertility in children, he was not grieved with a period of loss of children.
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7And the righteous mother of the seven children spoke also as follows to her offspring: I was a pure virgin, and went not beyond my father’s house; but I took care of the built-up rib.
8No destroyer of the desert, or ravisher of the plain, injured me; nor did the destructive, deceitful, snake, make spoil of my chaste virginity; and I remained with my husband during the period of my prime.
— 4 Maccabees 18:9 —
10And he used to teach you, when yet with you, the law and the prophets.
11He used to read to you the slaying of Abel by Cain, and the offering up of Isaac, and the imprisonment of Joseph.