2 Maccabees 6:19 - Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ Yet he, embracing a most glorious death as greater than a detestable life, went forward voluntarily to the torments.

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Common English Bible

¹⁹ But preferring death with honor to life with religious defilement, he proceeded voluntarily to the torture instrument,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁹ But he, choosing rather a most glorious death than a hateful life, went forward voluntarily to the torment.

Good News Translation (US Version)

^19-20 But he preferred an honorable death rather than a life of disgrace. So he spit out the meat and went willingly to the place of torture, showing how people should have courage to refuse unclean food, even if it costs them their lives.

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

¹⁹ But he, welcoming death with honor rather than life with defilement, advanced of his own accord to the instrument of torture, but first spat out the flesh,

Contemporary English Version Interconfessional Edition

¹⁹ Eleazar chose to die with honor rather than to live with shame. So he willingly walked to the place of torture, spitting out the meat as he went.

2 Maccabees 6:19 Tagairtí Cros