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1 Maccabees 15:33-35
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
1 Maccabees 15:33-35
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
33 Simon said to him in reply: “We have neither taken foreign land nor seized foreign property, but only the inheritance of our ancestors, which at one time had been unjustly taken by our enemies.(A) 34 Now that we have the opportunity, we are firmly holding the inheritance of our ancestors. 35 As for Joppa and Gazara, which you demand, they were causing great damage among the people and to our land, for them we will give you one hundred talents.”
Athenobius[a] did not answer him a word(B)
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- 15.35 Gk He
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