2 Maccabees 2:15-17
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
15 If you need them, send messengers to get them for you.
16 As we are about to celebrate the purification, we are writing: you should celebrate the feast days. 17 It is God who has saved all his people and has restored to all of them their inheritance, the kingdom, the priesthood, and the sacred rites,
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