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Remember in what manner our fathers were saved in the Red Sea, when Pharao pursued them with a great army.
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And now let us cry to heaven: and the Lord will have mercy on us, and will remember the covenant of our fathers, and will destroy this army before our face this day:
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And all nations shall know that there is one that redeemeth and delivereth Israel.
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And the strangers lifted up their eyes, and saw them coming against them.
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And they went out of the camp to battle, and they that were with Judas sounded the trumpet.
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And they joined battle: and the Gentiles were routed, and fled into the plain.
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But all the hindmost of them fell by the sword, and they pursued them as far as Gezeron, and even to the plains of Idumea, and of Azotus, and of Jamnia: and there fell of them to the number of three thousand men.
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And Judas returned again with his army that followed him,
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And he said to the people: Be not greedy of the spoils: for there is war before us:
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And Gorgias and his army are near us in the mountain: but stand ye now against our enemies, and overthrow them, and you shall take the spoils afterwards with safety.
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And as Judas was speaking these words, behold part of them appeared looking forth from the mountain.