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Then a group of scribes appeared in a body before Alcimus and Bacchides to ask for just terms.
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The Hasideans were first among the sons of Israel to seek peace from them,
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for they said, "A priest of the line of Aaron has come with the army, and he will not harm us."
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And he spoke peaceable words to them and swore this oath to them, "We will not seek to injure you or your friends."
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So they trusted him; but he seized sixty of them and killed them in one day, in accordance with the word which was written,
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