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Then all blessed the Lord of heaven, saying: Blessed be he that hath kept his own place undefiled.
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And he hung up Nicanor's head in the top of the castle, that it might be an evident and manifest sign of the help of God.
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And they all ordained by a common decree, by no means to let this day pass without solemnity:
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But to celebrate the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, called, in the Syrian language, the day before Mardochias' day.
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So these things being done with relation to Nicanor, and from that time the city being possessed by the Hebrews, I also will here make an end of my narration.