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38 So the enemy attacked them on the Sabbath and killed the men, their wives, their children, and their livestock. A thousand people died.

39 When Mattathias and his friends heard the news about this, they were greatly saddened 40 and said to one another,

If all of us do as these other Jews have done and refuse to fight the Gentiles to defend our lives and our religion, we will soon be wiped off the face of the earth.

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