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They burnt the gate, and shedded out innocent blood; and we prayed to the Lord, and we be graciously heard, and we have offered sacrifice, and clean flour, and have tended lanterns, and have put forth loaves.

And now make ye solemn the days of Scenopegia (or the Feast of Tabernacles), either (the) cleansing of the temple, of the month Kislev, that is, November.

10 In the hundred year and eight and eightieth, the people that is in Jerusalem, and in Judea, and the elder men [or and the senate], and Judas, to Aristobulus, master (or teacher) of Ptolemy, (the) king, that is of the kin of (the) anointed priests, and to them that be in Egypt, Jews, health of soul, and health of body.

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