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2 Maccabees 12:8-10
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
2 Maccabees 12:8-10
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
8 But learning that the men in Jam′nia meant in the same way to wipe out the Jews who were living among them, 9 he attacked the people of Jam′nia by night and set fire to the harbor and the fleet, so that the glow of the light was seen in Jerusalem, thirty miles[a] distant.
The Campaign in Gilead
10 When they had gone more than a mile[b] from there, on their march against Timothy, not less than five thousand Arabs with five hundred horsemen attacked them.
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- 2 Maccabees 12:9 Gk two hundred and forty stadia
- 2 Maccabees 12:10 Gk nine stadia
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE)
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