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1 Maccabees 3:37-39
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
1 Maccabees 3:37-39
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
37 Then the king took the remaining half of his forces and left Antioch his capital in the one hundred and forty-seventh year.[a] He crossed the Euphrates river and went through the upper provinces.
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38 Lysias chose Ptolemy son of Dorymenes, and Nicanor and Gorgias, able men among the Friends of the king, 39 and sent with them forty thousand infantry and seven thousand cavalry to go into the land of Judah and destroy it, as the king had commanded.
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- 1 Maccabees 3:37 165 bc
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised (NRSVA)
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