1 Maccabees 3:48-50

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⁴⁸ And they opened the book of the law to inquire into those matters about which the nations consulted the likenesses of their gods. ⁴⁹ They also brought the vestments of the priesthood and the first fruits and the tithes, and they stirred up the nazirites who had completed their days,^{(A) 50} and they cried aloud to heaven, saying,