1 Maccabees 4:51-53

Common English Bible

⁵¹ They placed bread on the table and hung curtains. Finally, they completed all the work that they had started.

⁵² They rose early in the morning of the twenty-fifth day of the ninth month, the month of Kislev.^[a] It was the year 148. ⁵³ They offered sacrifice, following the Law, on the new altar for entirely burned offerings that they had made.