2 Maccabees 1:8-10
New Catholic Bible
8 setting fire to the temple gate and shedding innocent blood. When we prayed to the Lord, our prayer was heard. Hence, we presented sacrifices and offerings of grain, and we lit the lamps and set out the loaves. 9 We now exhort you to observe the Feast of Booths in the month of Chislev. 10 Dated in the year one hundred and eighty-eight.
The Second Letter (164 B.C.)[a]
Tragic End of the Persecutor. The people of Jerusalem and Judea, the senate, and Judas send greetings and the wish for good health to Aristobulus,[b] the tutor to King Ptolemy and a member of the family of anointed priests, and to the Jews in Egypt. Read full chapter
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