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1 Maccabees 1:45-47
New Catholic Bible
1 Maccabees 1:45-47
New Catholic Bible
45 to prohibit holocausts, sacrifices, and libations in the sanctuary, to profane the Sabbaths and feast days, 46 to defile the temple and its priests, to build altars, temples, and shrines for idols, 47 to sacrifice swine[a] and other unclean beasts,
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- 1 Maccabees 1:47 Swine: the pig was the unclean animal par excellence (see Lev 11:7; Deut 14:8).