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68 Pay back the Gentiles in full, and obey the precepts of the law.”

69 Then he blessed them and was gathered to his ancestors. 70 He died in the year one hundred and forty-six and was buried in the tombs of his ancestors in Modein, and all Israel mourned him with great lamentation.[a]

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  1. 1 Maccabees 2:70 Mattathias died in 166 B.C., a year after the beginning of the revolt.