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1 Maccabees 14:25-27
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
1 Maccabees 14:25-27
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Official Honors for Simon
25 When the people heard these things they said, “How shall we thank Simon and his sons?(A) 26 For he and his brothers and the house of his father have stood firm; they have fought and repulsed Israel’s enemies and established its freedom.”(B) 27 So they made a record on bronze tablets and put it on pillars on Mount Zion.
This is a copy of what they wrote: “On the eighteenth day of Elul, in the one hundred seventy-second year, which is the third year of the great high priest Simon,(C)
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