2 Maccabees 8:26-28

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²⁶ But they came back for want of time: for it was the day before the sabbath: and therefore they did not continue the pursuit.

²⁷ But when they had gathered together their arms and their spoils, they kept the sabbath: blessing the Lord who had delivered them that day, distilling the beginning of mercy upon them.

²⁸ Then after the sabbath they divided the spoils to the feeble and the orphans, and the widows: and the rest they took for themselves and their servants.