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1 Maccabees 1:52-54
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
1 Maccabees 1:52-54
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
52 Many of the people, everyone who forsook the law, joined them, and they did evil in the land; 53 they drove Israel into hiding in every place of refuge they had.(A)
54 Now on the fifteenth day of Chislev, in the one hundred forty-fifth year, they erected a desolating sacrilege on the altar of burnt offering. They also built altars in the surrounding towns of Judah(B)
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