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4 Maccabees 6:18

For it would be irrational, if having lived up to old age in all truth, and having scrupulously guarded our character for it, we would now turn back

Parallel Translations

LXXView canonical →
for it were irrational, if having lived up to old age in all truth, and having scrupulously guarded our character for it, we should now turn back,
Brenton's Septuagint Translation
LXX2012View canonical →
for it were irrational, if having lived up to old age in all truth, and having scrupulously guarded our character for it, we should now turn back,
Septuagint in American English (2012)