OLD TESTAMENT

2 Maccabees 5:10

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He who had thrown out a multitude unburied had none to mourn for him. He didn’t have any funeral at all and no place in the tomb of his ancestors.

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Verse 10. Burial. Such as was not refused to strangers. The thirty pieces of silver purchased ground for that purpose. Matthew 27:7. Calmet.

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