2 Maccabees 6:10 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

For there were two women brought, who had circumcised their children; whom when they had openly led round about the city, the babes handing at their breasts, they cast them down headlong from the wall.

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Common English Bible

For instance, they brought forward two women who had circumcised their sons, with their infants hanging from their breasts. They dragged them around the city publicly, then hurled them down from the city wall.

Catholic Public Domain Version

For two women were denounced for having had their boys circumcised. These, with the infants suspended at their breasts, when they had publicly led them around the city, they cast down from the walls.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For two women were accused to have circumcised their children: whom, when they had openly led about through the city with the infants hanging at their breasts, they threw down headlong from the walls.

Good News Translation (US Version)

For example, two women were arrested for having their babies circumcised. They were paraded around the city with their babies hung from their breasts; then they were thrown down from the city wall.

World English Bible - American English Edition - without Strong's Numbers

For example, two women were brought in for having circumcised their children. These, when they had led them publicly around the city with the babes hung from their breasts, they threw down headlong from the wall.

Contemporary English Version Interconfessional Edition

For example, some soldiers arrested two Jewish mothers whose baby boys had been circumcised. They hung each child from its mother's breasts, then led the women in broad daylight through the town, before throwing them from the city wall.

2 Maccabees 6:10 Cross References