1 Maccabees 2:68-70
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
68 Pay back the Gentiles what they deserve, and observe the precepts of the law.”
69 Then he blessed them, and he was gathered to his ancestors. 70 He died in the year one hundred and forty-six,[a] and was buried in the tombs of his ancestors in Modein, and all Israel mourned him greatly.
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- 2:70 In the year one hundred and forty-six: 166 B.C.
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