1 Maccabees 4:51-53

New Catholic Bible

⁵¹Finally, they placed loaves of bread on the table and hung the curtains, thereby bringing to completion all of the work they had undertaken.

⁵²Early in the morning on the twenty-fifth day of the ninth month, that is, the month of Chislev, in the year one hundred and forty-eight, ⁵³they arose and offered sacrifice, in accordance with the law, on the new altar of burnt offerings that they had constructed.