4 Maccabees 5:27 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 It would be tyrannical for you to compel us not only to transgress the law but also to eat in such a way that you may deride us for eating defiling foods, which are most hateful to us. Common English Bible You are acting like a tyrant, trying not only to force us to break our Law but you are trying also to make us eat forbidden food that we hate just so you can make fun of us. World English Bible - American English Edition - without Strong's Numbers But, tyrant-like, you not only force us to break the law, but also to eat, that you may ridicule us as we thus profanely eat. World English Bible British Edition But, tyrant-like, you not only force us to break the law, but also to eat, that you may ridicule us as we thus profanely eat. Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) It would be tyrannical for you to compel us not only to transgress the law, but also to eat in such a way that you may deride us for eating defiling foods, which are most hateful to us. |