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And Mathathias cried out in the city with a loud voice, saying: Every one that hath zeal for the law, and maintaineth the testament, let him follow me.
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So he, and his sons fled into the mountains, and left all that they had in the city.
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Then many that sought after judgment, and justice, went down into the desert:
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And they abode there, they and their children, and their wives, and their cattle: because afflictions increased upon them.
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And it was told to the king's men, and to the army that was in Jerusalem in the city of David, that certain men who had broken the king's commandment, were gone away into the secret places in the wilderness, and that many were gone after them.