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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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"May we, the children of Abraham, never think so basely that out of cowardice we feign a role unbecoming to us!
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For it would be irrational if we, who have lived in accordance with truth to old age and have maintained in accordance with law the reputation of such a life, should now change our course