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They made new holy vessels, and brought the lampstand, the altar of incense, and the table into the temple.
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Then they offered incense on the altar and lit the lamps on the lampstand, and these gave light in the temple.
51
They placed the bread on the table and hung up the curtains. Thus they finished all the work they had undertaken.
52
Early in the morning on the twenty-fifth day of the ninth month, which is the month of Chislev, in the one hundred forty-eighth year,
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they rose and offered sacrifice, as the law directs, on the new altar of burnt offering that they had built.
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