2 Maccabees 8:25-27

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²⁵ And they took the money of them that came to buy them, and they pursued them on every side.

²⁶ But they came back for want of time: for it was the day before the sabbath: and therefore they did not continue the pursuit.

²⁷ But when they had gathered together their arms and their spoils, they kept the sabbath: blessing the Lord who had delivered them that day, distilling the beginning of mercy upon them.