1 Maccabees 1:63

“Wherfore they chose rather to die, that they might not be defiled with meats, and that they might not profane the holy Couenant: So then they died.”

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Wherefore the rather to die, that they might not be defiled with meats, and that they might not profane the holy covenant: so then they died.
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