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At that point, partly out of pity for his old age,
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partly out of sympathy from their acquaintance with him, partly out of admiration for his endurance, some of the king's retinue came to him and said,
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"Eleazar, why are you so irrationally destroying yourself through these evil things?
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We will set before you some cooked meat; save yourself by pretending to eat pork."
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But Eleazar, as though more bitterly tormented by this counsel, cried out:
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