2 Maccabees

2 Maccabees 12:4

κατὰ δὲ τὸ κοινὸν τῆς πόλεως ψήφισμα· καὶ τούτων ἐπιδεξαμένων ὡς ἂν εἰρηνεύειν θελόντων καὶ μηδὲν ὕποπτον ἐχόντων ἐπαναχθέντας αὐτοὺς ἐβύθισαν ὄντας οὐκ ἔλαττον τῶν διακοσίων.
King James Version (KJV)

Who accepted of it according to the common decree of the city, as being desirous to live in peace, and suspecting nothing: but when they were gone forth into the deep, they drowned no less than two hundred of them.

Modern English

The Jews accepted, trusting the city's public decree since they wanted to live peacefully and suspected nothing; but once they were out at sea, the people of Joppa drowned no fewer than two hundred of them.

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