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1 Maccabees 8:16-18
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
1 Maccabees 8:16-18
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
16 They trust one man each year to rule over them and to control all their land; they all heed the one man, and there is no envy or jealousy among them.
An Alliance with Rome
17 So Judas chose Eupolemus son of John son of Accos, and Jason son of Eleazar, and sent them to Rome to establish friendship and alliance, 18 and to free themselves from the yoke; for they saw that the kingdom of the Greeks was enslaving Israel completely.
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