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1 Maccabees 9:38-40
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
1 Maccabees 9:38-40
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
38 Remembering how their brother John had been killed, they went up and hid under cover of the mountain. 39 They looked out and saw a tumultuous procession with a great amount of baggage, and the bridegroom came out with his friends and his brothers to meet them with tambourines and musicians and many weapons. 40 Then they rushed on them from the ambush and began killing them. Many were wounded and fell, and the rest fled to the mountain, and the troops[a] took all their goods.(A)
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