For when our fathers were led into Persia, the priests that were then devout took the fire of the altar privily, and hid it in an hollow place of a pit without water, where they kept [it] sure, so that the place was unknown to all men.
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2 Maccabees 1:19
For when as our fathers were led away vnto Persia, the Priests, which soght the honor of God, toke the*fyre of the altar priuely, and hid it in an hollow pit, which was drie in the bottom, & therein they kept it, so that the place was vnknowen vnto euerie man.
Parallel Translations
For when our fathers were led into Persia, the priests that were then devout took the fire of the altar privily, and hid it in an hollow place of a pit without water, where they kept it sure, so that the place was unknown to all men.
For when our fathers were led into Persia, the priests that were then devout took the fire of the altar privily, and hid it in an hollow place of a pit without water, where they kept it sure, so that the place was unknown to all men.
For indeed when our fathers were about to be led into the land of Persia, the godly priests of that time took some of the fire of the altar, and hid it secretly in the hollow of a well that was without water, where they made sure that the place was unknown to anyone.