4 Maccabees 8:13 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) And when the guards had placed before them wheels and joint-dislocators, rack and hooks and catapults and caldrons, braziers and thumbscrews and iron claws and wedges and bellows, the tyrant resumed speaking: Common English Bible The guards laid out the instruments in front of them: wheels and machines for pulling joints apart, racks, clubs, and instruments for applying heavy tension, grills and extremely large frying pans, tools to crush fingers, iron claws, wedges, and burning coals. The tyrant continued: World English Bible - American English Edition - without Strong's Numbers “Fear, young men, and the righteousness which you worship will be merciful to you if you transgress because of compulsion.” World English Bible British Edition “Fear, young men, and the righteousness which you worship will be merciful to you if you transgress because of compulsion.” New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 When the guards had placed before them wheels and joint-dislocators, rack and hooks and catapults and caldrons, braziers and thumbscrews and iron claws and wedges and bellows, the tyrant resumed speaking: |