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1 Maccabees 9:5-7
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
1 Maccabees 9:5-7
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
5 Now Judas was encamped in Elasa, and with him were three thousand picked men. 6 When they saw the huge number of the enemy forces, they were greatly frightened, and many slipped away from the camp, until no more than eight hundred of them were left.
7 When Judas saw that his army had slipped away and the battle was imminent, he was crushed in spirit, for he had no time to assemble them.
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