1 Maccabees 4:53-55
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
53 and offered sacrifice according to the law on the new altar for burnt offerings that they had made.(A) 54 On the anniversary of the day on which the Gentiles had desecrated it, on that very day it was rededicated with songs, harps, lyres, and cymbals. 55 All the people prostrated themselves and adored and praised Heaven, who had given them success.
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