Old Testament readings use the Septuagint , the Scripture the apostles quoted. Masoretic numbering shown for reference.Learn why
LXX2012

1 Maccabees 3:48

And laid open the book of the law, wherein the heathen had sought to paint the likeness of their images.

Parallel Translations

LXXView canonical →
and laid open the book of the law, wherein the heathen had sought to paint the likeness of their images.
Brenton's Septuagint Translation
KJVView canonical →
And laid open the book of the law, wherein the heathen had sought to paint the likeness of their images.
King James Version
WEBView canonical →
and opened the book of the law, to learn about the things for which the Gentiles consulted the images of their idols.
World English Bible
GNV1560View canonical →
And opened the boke of the Law, wherein the heathen soght to paint the lickenes of their idoles,
Geneva Bible (1560) Apocrypha