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After the festival called Pentecost, they hurried against Gorgias, the governor of Idumea,
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who came out with three thousand infantry and four hundred cavalry.
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When they joined battle, it happened that a few of the Jews fell.
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But a certain Dositheus, one of Bacenor's men, who was on horseback and was a strong man, caught hold of Gorgias, and grasping his cloak was dragging him off by main strength, wishing to take the accursed man alive, when one of the Thracian cavalry bore down on him and cut off his arm; so Gorgias escaped and reached Marisa.
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As Esdris and his men had been fighting for a long time and were weary, Judas called upon the Lord to show himself their ally and leader in the battle.
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