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May he hear your prayers, and be reconciled unto you, and never forsake you in the evil time.
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And now here we are praying for you.
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When Demetrius reigned, in the year one hundred and sixty-nine, we Jews wrote to you, in the trouble, and violence, that came upon us in those years, after Jason withdrew himself from the holy land, and from the kingdom.
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They burnt the gate, and shed innocent blood: then we prayed to the Lord, and were heard, and we offered sacrifices, and fine flour, and lighted the lamps, and set forth the leaves.
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And now celebrate ye the days of Scenopegia in the month of Casleu.
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In the year Bone hundred and eighty- eight, the people that is at Jerusalem, and in Judea, and the senate, and Judas, to Aristobolus, the preceptor of king Ptolemee, who is of the stock of the anointed priests, and to the Jews that are in Egypt, health and welfare.
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Having been delivered by God out of great dangers, we give him great thanks, forasmuch as we have been in war with such a king.
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For he made numbers of men swarm out of Persia that have fought against us, and the holy city.
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For when the leader himself was in Persia, and with him a very great army, he fell in the temple of Nanea, being deceived by the counsel of the priests of Nanea.
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For Antiochus, with his friends, came to the place as though he would marry her, and that he might receive great sums of money under the title of a dowry.
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And when the priests of Nanea had set it forth, and he with a small company had entered into the compass of the temple, they shut the temple,