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Now Antiochus, thinking himself despised, and suspecting it to be a reproachful speech, whilst the youngest was yet alive, did not only exhort him by words, but also assured him with oaths, that he would make him both a rich and a happy man, if he would turn from the laws of his fathers; and that also he would take him for his friend, and trust him with affairs. (2 Maccabees 7, 24)
But I, as my brethren, offer up my body and life for the laws of our fathers, beseeching God that he would speedily be merciful unto our nation; and that thou by torments and plagues mayest confess, that he alone is God; (2 Maccabees 7, 37)
Thus he, that took upon him to make good to the Romans their tribute by means of captives in Jerusalem, told abroad, that the Jews had God to fight for them, and therefore they could not be hurt, because they followed the laws that he gave them. (2 Maccabees 8, 36)
We understand also that the Jews would not consent to our father, for to be brought unto the custom of the Gentiles, but had rather keep their own manner of living: for the which cause they require of us, that we should suffer them to live after their own laws. (2 Maccabees 11, 24)
And the Jews shall use their own kind of meats and laws, as before; and none of them any manner of ways shall be molested for things ignorantly done. (2 Maccabees 11, 31)
So when he had committed all to the Creator of the world, and exhorted his soldiers to fight manfully, even unto death, for the laws, the temple, the city, the country, and the commonwealth, he camped by Modin: (2 Maccabees 13, 14)
And love is the keeping of her laws; and the giving heed unto her laws is the assurance of incorruption; (Wisdom of Solomon 6, 18)
For I thy servant and son of thine handmaid am a feeble person, and of a short time, and too young for the understanding of judgment and laws. (Wisdom of Solomon 9, 5)
But these very grievously afflicted them, whom they had received with feastings, and were already made partakers of the same laws with them. (Wisdom of Solomon 19, 16)
For at the first she will walk with him by crooked ways, and bring fear and dread upon him, and torment him with her discipline, until she may trust his soul, and try him by her laws. (Ecclesiasticus 4, 17)
He gave unto him his commandments, and authority in the statutes of judgments, that he should teach Jacob the testimonies, and inform Israel in his laws. (Ecclesiasticus 45, 17)
The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. (Isaiah 24, 5)