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Let us take pity on our own youth and have compassion on our mother's age; and let us lay to heart that if we disobey we shall die.

Let us take pity on our own youth and have compassion on our mother's age; and let us lay to heart that if we disobey we shall die.

Let us not strive against necessity nor with vain confidence invite our torture.

'Let us die like brothers, O brethren, for the Law.

Let us imitate the Three Children at the Assyrian court who despised this same ordeal of the furnace.

Let us not turn cravens before the proof of righteousness.'

And each and all of them together, looking at each other brightly and very boldly, said, 'With a whole heart will we consecrate ourselves unto God who gave us our souls, and let us lend our bodies to the keeping of the Law.

Let us not fear him who thinketh he kills; for a great struggle and peril of the soul awaits in eternal torment those who transgress the ordinance of God.

Let us then arm ourselves with divine Reason's mastery of the passions.

Let their counsel become thick darkness, and what I have cunningly devised, let it return upon their own heads:

Let their counsel become thick darkness, and what I have cunningly devised, let it return upon their own heads:

And let your love be multiplied from the heart and even to the lips,

Let me be well-pleasing before thee, because of thy glory and because of thy name:

Let me be preserved from evil, and let thy meekness, O Lord, abide with me, and the fruits of thy love.

Let me be preserved from evil, and let thy meekness, O Lord, abide with me, and the fruits of thy love.

Let not the luminary be conquered by the darkness; nor let truth flee away from falsehood.

Let not the luminary be conquered by the darkness; nor let truth flee away from falsehood.

Present your reins before Him blamelessly: and let not thy heart do violence to heart, nor thy soul to soul.

Let us, therefore, all of us unite together in the name of the Lord, and let us honour Him in His goodness,

Let us, therefore, all of us unite together in the name of the Lord, and let us honour Him in His goodness,

And let our faces shine in His light: and let our hearts meditate in His love by night and by day.

And let our faces shine in His light: and let our hearts meditate in His love by night and by day.

Let us exult with the joy of the Lord.

And the feet and the head he let go, for they were not able to endure my face:

Let us also be redeemed with thee: for thou art our Redeemer.