2 Maccabees 1:7-9
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
7 In the reign of Demetrius, in the one hundred and sixty-ninth year,[a] we Jews wrote to you, in the critical distress that came upon us in those years after Jason and his company revolted from the holy land and the kingdom 8 and burned the gate and shed innocent blood. We prayed to the Lord and were heard, and we offered sacrifice and grain-offering, and we lit the lamps and set out the loaves. 9 And now see that you keep the festival of booths in the month of Chislev, in the one hundred and eighty-eighth year.[b]
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- 2 Maccabees 1:7 143 bc
- 2 Maccabees 1:9 124 bc
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