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1 Maccabees 13:40-42
Good News Translation
1 Maccabees 13:40-42
Good News Translation
40 All Jews who are qualified may enroll in the royal service. Let us have peace.
41 So in the year 170[a] the yoke of the Gentile oppressors was removed from the Jews. 42 People began to date their documents and contracts with these words:
In the first year of Simon, the great High Priest, commander and leader of the Jews.
Footnotes
- 1 Maccabees 13:41 the year 170: This corresponds to 142 B.C.
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