3 Maccabees 5:23-25

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²³ Then, as soon as the cock had crowed in the early morning, Hermon, having equipped^[a] the animals, began to move them along in the great colonnade. ²⁴ The crowds of the city had been assembled for this most pitiful spectacle and were eagerly waiting for daybreak. ²⁵ But the Jews, being at that very moment at their last gasp, stretched their hands toward heaven and with most tearful supplication and mournful dirges implored the supreme God to help them again at once.^(A)