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1 Maccabees 12:11-13
New Catholic Bible
1 Maccabees 12:11-13
New Catholic Bible
11 “We, for our part, remember you constantly in the sacrifices we offer and in our prayers at our festivals and on other appointed days, for it is right and proper to remember brothers.[a] 12 We rejoice in your renown. 13 We ourselves, however, have endured many trials and wars, and the kings in our vicinity have been attacking us.
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- 1 Maccabees 12:11 Despite the separatism practiced by the Jews, no law prohibited them from praying for other peoples, even Gentiles, for their rulers (see Jer 29:7; Ezr 6:10), and in particular for foreign sovereigns on whom Israel depended.
