# 2 Maccabees 6:1

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

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- Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/2-maccabees/6/1
- Book: [2 Maccabees](https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/2-maccabees)
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Not long after this the king sent an old man of Athens to compel the Jews to depart from the laws of their fathers, and not to live after the laws of God: