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When he had said these things, he ordered the instruments of torture to be brought forward so as to persuade them out of fear to eat the defiling food.
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Therefore take pity on yourselves. Even I, your enemy, have compassion for your youth and handsome appearance.
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Will you not consider this, that if you disobey, nothing remains for you but to die on the rack?"
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When he had said these things, he ordered the instruments of torture to be brought forward so as to persuade them out of fear to eat the defiling food.
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And when the guards had placed before them wheels and joint-dislocators, rack and hooks and catapults and caldrons, braziers and thumbscrews and iron claws and wedges and bellows, the tyrant resumed speaking:
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"Be afraid, young fellows, and whatever justice you revere will be merciful to you when you transgress under compulsion."
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.