# 2 Maccabees 7:2

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

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- Edition: kjv-apocrypha
- Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/2-maccabees/7/2
- Book: [2 Maccabees](https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/2-maccabees)
- Chapter: [2 Maccabees 7](https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/2-maccabees/7)
- Background: https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/2-maccabees#background-and-history
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But one of them that spake first said thus, What wouldest thou ask or learn of us? we are ready to die, rather than to transgress the laws of our fathers.