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Now Gorgias took five thousand infantry and one thousand picked cavalry, and this division moved out by night
2
to fall upon the camp of the Jews and attack them suddenly. Men from the citadel were his guides.
3
But Judas heard of it, and he and his warriors moved out to attack the king's force in Emmaus
4
while the division was still absent from the camp.
5
When Gorgias entered the camp of Judas by night, he found no one there, so he looked for them in the hills, because he said, "These men are running away from us."
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