1 Maccabees 5:12-14
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
12 Come at once to rescue us from them, for many of us have fallen. 13 All our kindred who were in the territory of the Tobiads[a] have been killed; the Gentiles have captured their wives, their children and their goods, and they have slain there about a thousand men.”(A)
14 While they were reading this letter, suddenly other messengers, with garments torn, arrived from Galilee to deliver a similar message:
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- 5:13 Tobiads: a prominent Jewish family that settled east of the Jordan.
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