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So then they gave them the battle with all speed.
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Howbeit they answered them not, neither cast they a stone at them, nor stopped the places where they lay hid;
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But said, Let us die all in our innocency: heaven and earth will testify for us, that ye put us to death wrongfully.
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So they rose up against them in battle on the sabbath, and they slew them, with their wives and children and their cattle, to the number of a thousand people.
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Now when Mattathias and his friends understood hereof, they mourned for them right sore.