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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.
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I am not so old and cowardly as not to be young in reason on behalf of piety.
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Therefore get your torture wheels ready and fan the fire more vehemently!
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.