1 Maccabees 10:11-13
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
11 He ordered those doing the work to build the walls and to encircle Mount Zion with square stones for its fortification, and they did so. 12 The foreigners in the strongholds that Bacchides had built took flight; 13 all of them left their places and returned to their own lands.
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