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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.
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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.
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We will now report about what occurred under Antiochus Eupator, that ungodly man's son, summarizing the distressful events of the dreadful wars.