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2 Maccabees 5:25-27
New Catholic Bible
2 Maccabees 5:25-27
New Catholic Bible
25 When this man arrived in Jerusalem, he pretended to be peacefully disposed and waited until the holy Sabbath day. Then, finding the Jews abstaining from work, he ordered his men to parade fully armed. 26 He put to the sword all those who came out to watch, and then he charged into the city with his armed warriors and slaughtered a great number of people.
27 However, Judas Maccabeus,[a] with about nine others, escaped into the wilderness, where he and his companions lived like wild animals in the hills, eating nothing but what grew wild there to avoid contracting defilement.
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- 2 Maccabees 5:27 Judas Maccabeus: the third son of Mattathias, of the Hasmonean family (1 Mac 2:1-28). Defilement was contracted because of taking part in customs contrary to the Mosaic Law (see 2 Mac 4:11; 1 Mac 1:48, 63).
