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1 Maccabees 6:35-37
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
1 Maccabees 6:35-37
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
35 They distributed the animals among the phalanxes; with each elephant they stationed a thousand men armed with coats of mail and with brass helmets on their heads, and five hundred picked horsemen were assigned to each beast. 36 These took their position beforehand wherever the animal was; wherever it went, they went with it, and they never left it. 37 On the elephants[a] were wooden towers, strong and covered; they were fastened on each animal by special harness, and on each were four[b] armed men who fought from there and also its Indian driver.
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