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13 In the hundred and nine and fortieth year Judas knew, that Antiochus Eupator came with (a) multitude against Judea;

and with him came Lysias, procurator and sovereign of offices [or provost of needs], having with him an hundred and ten thousand of footmen, and of horsemen five thousand, and elephants two and twenty, (and) chariots with scythes [or with sickles] three hundred.

Forsooth and Menelaus joined him(self) to them, and with great deceit besought Antiochus, not for (the) health (or for the deliverance) of the country, but hoping that he should be ordained into princehood.

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