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26 Forsooth whoever of (the) aliens (had) escaped, came, and told to Lysias all (the) things that befell.

27 And when he heard these things, he was astonied (or astonished) in soul, and failed; for not what manner things he would, such befell in Israel, and what manner things the king commanded.

28 And in the year (pur)suing (or in the following year), Lysias gathered of chosen men sixty thousand, and of horsemen five thousand, for to overcome them.

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