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2 Maccabees 1:8-10
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
2 Maccabees 1:8-10
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
8 and burned the gate and shed innocent blood. We prayed to the Lord and were heard, and we offered sacrifice and grain offering, and we lit the lamps and set out the loaves.(A) 9 And now see that you keep the Festival of Booths[a] in the month of Chislev, in the one hundred eighty-eighth year.(B)
A Letter to Aristobulus
10 The people of Jerusalem and of Judea and the council and Judas,
To Aristobulus, who is of the family of the anointed priests, teacher of King Ptolemy, and to the Jews in Egypt,
Greetings and good health.(C)
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- 1.9 Or Tabernacles
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