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2 Maccabees 1:7-9
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
2 Maccabees 1:7-9
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
7 In the reign of Demetrius, in the one hundred sixty-ninth year, 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(A) 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.(B) 9 And now see that you keep the Festival of Booths[a] in the month of Chislev, in the one hundred eighty-eighth year.(C)
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- 1.9 Or Tabernacles
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