67
You shall rally about you all who observe the law, and avenge the wrong done to your people.
68
Pay back the Gentiles in full, and heed what the law commands."
69
Then he blessed them, and was gathered to his fathers.
70
He died in the one hundred and forty-sixth year and was buried in the tomb of his fathers at Modein. And all Israel mourned for him with great lamentation.
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.