7
So they held ivy wands, beautiful branches, and also palm leaves, and offered hymns to the one who had made the purification of his own temple possible.
5
On the anniversary of the temple's defilement by foreigners, on that very day, the sanctuary was purified, on the twenty-fifth of the month, which is Kislev.
6
They celebrated eight days with cheer in a manner like the Festival of Booths, remembering how during the previous Festival of Booths they had been roaming about in mountains and caverns like animals.
7
So they held ivy wands, beautiful branches, and also palm leaves, and offered hymns to the one who had made the purification of his own temple possible.
8
They voted and issued a public decree that all Jews should celebrate these days each year.
9
And so the matters concerning Antiochus called Epiphanes came to an end.