This book is not inspired by God and is not part of the Christian canon or the Jewish Tanakh. It is shown only for historical and study purposes. View full explanation 2 Maccabees 6:24 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition24 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; See the chapterMore versionsCommon English Bible24 “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. See the chapterCatholic Public Domain Version24 "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. See the chapterDouay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version24 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: See the chapterGood News Translation (US Version)24 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. See the chapterWorld English Bible - American English Edition - without Strong's Numbers24 “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; See the chapter |