19 They light candles for them, yes, more than for themselves, even though they can’t see one. (WEB)
Baruch 6:19
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Job 17:11–13
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Odes of Solomon 6:15–17
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1 Maccabees 2:35–37
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Wisdom of Solomon 18:1–2
1 But for your holy ones there was great light. Their enemies, hearing their voice but not seeing their form, counted it a happy thing that they too had suffered, (WEB) 2 yet for that they do not hurt them, though wronged by them before, they are thankful; and because t… (WEB)
Baruch 6:40–42
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2 Esdras 7:65–67
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1 Maccabees 1:54–56
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Psalms 37:25–27
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