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1 Maccabees 3:36-38
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
1 Maccabees 3:36-38
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
36 settle strangers in all their territory, and distribute their land by lot. 37 Then the king took the remaining half of his forces and left Antioch his capital in the one hundred and forty-seventh year. He crossed the Euphrates River and went through the upper provinces.(A)
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38 Lysias chose Ptolemy son of Dorymenes and Nicanor and Gorgias, able men among the Friends of the king,(B)
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