1 Maccabees 5:12-14

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹² Now then, come and rescue us from their hands, for many of us have fallen, ¹³ and all our kindred who were in the land of Tob have been killed; the enemy^[a] have captured their wives and children and goods, and have destroyed about a thousand persons there.”

¹⁴ While the letter was still being read, other messengers, with their garments torn, came from Galilee and made a similar report;