2 Maccabees 6:24 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition For it becometh not our age, said he, in any wise to dissemble, whereby many young persons might think that Ele-a´zar, being fourscore years old and ten, were now gone to a strange religion; More versionsCommon English Bible “It’s not worthy of our old age to act out such a role. Otherwise, many of the young would assume wrongly that Eleazar the 90-year-old had changed to a foreign way of life. Catholic Public Domain Version "For it is not worthy for those of our age," he said, "to deceive, so that many adolescents might think that Eleazar, at ninety years, had converted to the life of the foreigners. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For it doth not become our age, said he, to dissemble: whereby many young persons might think that Eleazar, at the age of fourscore and ten years, was gone over to the life of the heathens: Good News Translation (US Version) Such deception is not worthy of a man of my years. Many young people would think that I had denied my faith after I was ninety years old. World English Bible - American English Edition - without Strong's Numbers “For it doesn’t become our years to dissemble,” he said, “that many of the young should suppose that Eleazar, the man of ninety years, had gone over to an alien religion; Contemporary English Version Interconfessional Edition It would be disgraceful for someone my age to pretend to eat unlawful food. Our young people would think that I had given up my Jewish faith after 90 years. |