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1 Maccabees 2:37-39
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
1 Maccabees 2:37-39
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
37 for they said, “Let us all die in our innocence; heaven and earth testify for us that you are killing us unjustly.” 38 So they attacked them on the sabbath, and they died, with their wives and children and cattle, to the number of a thousand persons.
39 When Mattathi′as and his friends learned of it, they mourned for them deeply.
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