1 Maccabees 3:48-50

Good News Translation

⁴⁸ The Gentiles would have consulted their idols in such a situation, but the Israelites unrolled the book of the Law to search for God's guidance.⁴⁹ They brought the priests' robes, the offerings of the first grain, and the tithes, and then they brought in some Nazirites who had completed their vows. ⁵⁰ The whole community prayed,