2 Maccabees · Restored Names Edition · first paragraph
1Not long after this the king sent an old man of Athens to compel the Yahudim (Jews) to depart from the laws of their fathers, and not to live after the laws of Yahuah (God):
2And to pollute also the temple in Jerusalem, and to call it the temple of Jupiter Olympius; and that in Garizim, of Jupiter the Defender of strangers, as they did desire that dwelt in the place.
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