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We will set some cooked meat in front of you. Save yourself by pretending that it is pork and eat it."
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Eleazar screamed out as if this advice were even more painful than the whips:
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"May we who are Abraham's children never think so wickedly that we would pretend to act this inappropriately because we are cowards!
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To change our ways now would be the truly thoughtless thing to do. We have lived in line with God's truth well into old age and earned a reputation for keeping the Law.
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We would become an example of ungodly behavior for the younger people, and pave the way for them to eat forbidden food.