# 2 Maccabees 13:8

**Apocrypha.** Not part of the 66-book Protestant canon. Catholic and Orthodox churches accept these books as deuterocanonical.

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- Book: [2 Maccabees](https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/2-maccabees)
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For inasmuch as he had committed many sins about the altar, whose fire and ashes were holy, he received his death in ashes.