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1 Maccabees 1:52-54
Common English Bible
1 Maccabees 1:52-54
Common English Bible
52 Many Jewish people, those who abandoned the Law, followed suit and did evil in the land. 53 The king’s inspectors[a] drove Israel into hiding in every place of refuge they had available.
54 Now on the fifteenth day of Kislev,[b] in the year 145, they set up a disgusting and destructive thing on the altar for entirely burned offerings in the sanctuary. The inspectors[c] built other altars in the surrounding Judean towns.
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