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1 Maccabees 2:38-40
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
1 Maccabees 2:38-40
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
38 So they attacked them on the sabbath, and they died, with their wives and children and livestock, to the number of a thousand people.
39 When Mattathias and his friends learned of it, they mourned for them deeply. 40 And all said to their neighbours: ‘If we all do as our kindred have done and refuse to fight with the Gentiles for our lives and for our ordinances, they will quickly destroy us from the earth.’
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