3 Maccabees 5:22-24
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
22 But they did not so much employ the duration of the night in sleep as in devising all sorts of insults for those they thought to be doomed.
23 Then, as soon as the cock had crowed in the early morning, Hermon, having equipped[a] the animals, began to move them along in the great colonnade. 24 The crowds of the city had been assembled for this most pitiful spectacle and they were eagerly waiting for daybreak.
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- 3 Maccabees 5:23 Or armed
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