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and ourselves become a pattern of impiety to the young by setting them an example in the eating of defiling food.
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It would be shameful if we should survive for a little while and during that time be a laughingstock to all for our cowardice,
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and be despised by the tyrant as unmanly by not contending even to death for our divine law.
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Therefore, O children of Abraham, die nobly for your religion!
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And you, guards of the tyrant, why do you delay?"
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