2 Maccabees 2:11-13
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
11 [a]Moses had said, “Because it had not been eaten, the purification offering was consumed.”(A) 12 Solomon also celebrated the feast in the same way for eight days.
13 These same things are also told in the records and in Nehemiah’s memoirs,[b] as well as how he founded a library and collected the books about the kings and the prophets, the books of David, and the royal letters about votive offerings.
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- 2:11 The statement attributed here to Moses seems to be based on Lv 10:16–20.
- 2:13 Nehemiah’s memoirs: a lost apocryphal work, or perhaps Neh 1–7, 11–13.
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