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1 Maccabees
1 Maccabees 1
1 Maccabees 1:58-64
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1 Maccabees 1:58-64
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58
They kept using violence against Israel, against those found month after month in the cities.
59
And on the twenty-fifth day of the month they offered sacrifice on the altar which was upon the altar of burnt offering.
60
According to the decree, they put to death the women who had their children circumcised,
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and their families and those who circumcised them; and they hung the infants from their mothers' necks.
62
But many in Israel stood firm and were resolved in their hearts not to eat unclean food.
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They chose to die rather than to be defiled by food or to profane the holy covenant; and they did die.
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And very great wrath came upon Israel.
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Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.