1 Maccabees 5:12-14

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¹² Now then, come and rescue us from their hands, for many of us have fallen, ¹³ and all our kindred who were in the land of Tobias have been killed; the enemy^[a] have captured their wives and children and goods and have destroyed about a thousand persons there.”^(A)

¹⁴ While the letters were still being read, other messengers, with their garments torn, came from Galilee and made a similar report;^(B)