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It would be tyrannical for you to compel us not only to transgress the law, but also to eat in such a way that you may deride us for eating defiling foods, which are most hateful to us.
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But you shall have no such occasion to laugh at me,
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nor will I transgress the sacred oaths of my ancestors concerning the keeping of the law,
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not even if you gouge out my eyes and burn my entrails.
31
I am not so old and cowardly as not to be young in reason on behalf of piety.
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