2 Maccabees 6:7
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7 Moreover, at the monthly celebration of the king’s birthday the Jews, from bitter necessity, had to partake of the sacrifices, and when the festival of Dionysus[a] was celebrated, they were compelled to march in his procession, wearing wreaths of ivy.(A)
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- 6:7 Dionysus: also called Bacchus, the god of the grape harvest and of wine; ivy was one of his symbols.
2 Maccabees 10:5
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5 On the anniversary of the day on which the temple had been profaned by the foreigners, that is, the twenty-fifth of the same month Kislev, the purification of the temple took place.
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1 Maccabees 1:59
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59 On the twenty-fifth day of each month they sacrificed on the pagan altar that was over the altar of burnt offerings.
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1 Maccabees 4:59
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59 Then Judas and his brothers and the entire assembly of Israel decreed that every year for eight days, from the twenty-fifth day of the month Kislev,(A) the days of the dedication[a] of the altar should be observed with joy and gladness on the anniversary.
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