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2 Maccabees 1:7-9
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
2 Maccabees 1:7-9
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
7 When Demetrius reigned, in the year one hundred and sixty-nine, we Jews wrote to you, in the trouble, and violence, that came upon us in those years, after Jason withdrew himself from the holy land, and from the kingdom.
8 They burnt the gate, and shed innocent blood: then we prayed to the Lord, and were heard, and we offered sacrifices, and fine flour, and lighted the lamps, and set forth the loaves.
9 And now celebrate ye the days of Scenopegia in the month of Casleu.
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