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2 Maccabees 1:9-11
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
2 Maccabees 1:9-11
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
9 And now see that you keep the festival of booths in the month of Chislev, in the one hundred and eighty-eighth year.[a]
A Letter to Aristobulus
10 The people of Jerusalem and of Judea and the senate and Judas,
To Aristobulus, who is of the family of the anointed priests, teacher of King Ptolemy, and to the Jews in Egypt,
Greetings and good health.
11 Having been saved by God out of grave dangers we thank him greatly for taking our side against the king,[b]
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- 2 Maccabees 1:9 124 bc
- 2 Maccabees 1:11 Cn: Gk as those who array themselves against a king
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