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1 Maccabees
1 Maccabees 1
1 Maccabees 1:57-64
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57
Anyone found possessing the book of the covenant, or anyone who adhered to the law, was condemned to death by decree of the king.
58
They kept using violence against Israel, against those who were found month after month in the towns.
59
On the twenty-fifth day of the month they offered sacrifice on the altar that was on top of the altar of burnt offering.
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According to the decree, they put to death the women who had their children circumcised,
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and their families and those who circumcised them; and they hung the infants from their mothers' necks.
62
But many in Israel stood firm and were resolved in their hearts not to eat unclean food.
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They chose to die rather than to be defiled by food or to profane the holy covenant; and they did die.
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Very great wrath came upon Israel.
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