1 Maccabees 3:55-57

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⁵⁵ After this Judas appointed leaders of the people in charge of thousands and hundreds and fifties and tens.^{(A) 56} Those who were building houses or were about to be married or were planting a vineyard or were fainthearted, he told to go home, according to the law.^{(B) 57} Then the army marched out and encamped to the south of Emmaus.