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1 Maccabees 1:10-12
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
1 Maccabees 1:10-12
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Antiochus Epiphanes and Renegade Jews
10 From them came forth a sinful root, Antiochus Epiphanes, son of King Antiochus; he had been a hostage in Rome. He began to reign in the one hundred thirty-seventh year of the kingdom of the Greeks.(A)
11 In those days certain renegades came out from Israel and misled many, saying, “Let us go and make a covenant with the nations around us, for since we separated from them many disasters have come upon us.”(B) 12 This proposal pleased them,
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