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1 Maccabees 5:3-5
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
1 Maccabees 5:3-5
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
3 But Judas made war on the descendants of Esau in Idumea, at Akrabattene, because they kept lying in wait for Israel. He dealt them a heavy blow and humbled them and despoiled them.(A) 4 He also remembered the wickedness of the sons of Baean, who were a trap and a snare to the people and ambushed them on the highways. 5 They were shut up by him in towers, and he encamped against them, vowed their complete destruction, and burned with fire their towers and all who were in them.(B)
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