59
Gorgias and his men came out of the town to meet them in battle.
60
Then Joseph and Azariah were routed, and were pursued to the borders of Judea; as many as two thousand of the people of Israel fell that day.
61
Thus the people suffered a great rout because, thinking to do a brave deed, they did not listen to Judas and his brothers.
62
But they did not belong to the family of those men through whom deliverance was given to Israel.
63
The man Judas and his brothers were greatly honored in all Israel and among all the Gentiles, wherever their name was heard.
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