1 Maccabees 9:3-5
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3 In the first month of the one hundred and fifty-second year,[a] they encamped against Jerusalem. 4 Then they set out for Berea with twenty thousand men and two thousand cavalry. 5 Judas, with three thousand picked men, had camped at Elasa.
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- 9:3 The first month of the one hundred and fifty-second year: April/May 160 B.C., by the Temple calendar.
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