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12 And lo! our holy thing, and our fairness, and our clarity, is desolate, and heathen men defouled it. (And lo! our Temple, yea, our beauty, and our glory, is made desolate, and the heathen men have defiled it.)

13 What therefore is it to us for to live (any longer)? [What therefore yet to us for to live?]

14 And Mattathias and his sons rent their clothes, and covered them(selves) with hair-shirts, and wailed greatly.

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