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sak´ri-lej: For “commit sacrilege†in (the King James Version and the English Revised Version margin), the Revised Version (British and American) has “rob temples,†which more exactly expresses the meaning of the verb (hierosuleÌoÌ„; compare , “robbers of temples†(which see)). The noun occurs in 2 Macc 4:39 (the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American)) for the corresponding form hierosuÌleÌ„ma.