1 Maccabees 4:52-54

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁵² And they arose before the morning on the five and twentieth day of the ninth month (which is the month of Casleu) in the hundred and forty-eighth year.

⁵³ And they offered sacrifice according to the law upon the new altar of holocausts which they had made.

⁵⁴ According to the time, and according to the day wherein the heathens had defiled it, in the same was it dedicated anew with canticles, and harps, and lutes, and cymbals.