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Antiochus’s Encounter with Eleazar

The tyrant Antiochus, sitting in state with his counsellors on a certain high place, and with his armed soldiers standing around him, ordered the guards to seize each and every Hebrew and to compel them to eat pork and food sacrificed to idols. If any were not willing to eat defiling food, they were to be broken on the wheel and killed.

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