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they thanked them and exhorted them to be well disposed to their race in the future also. Then they went up to Jerusalem, as the feast of weeks was close at hand.
32
After the feast called Pentecost, they hastened against Gorgias, the governor of Idumea.
33
And he came out with three thousand infantry and four hundred cavalry.
34
When they joined battle, it happened that a few of the Jews fell.
35
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 horsemen bore down upon him and cut off his arm; so Gorgias escaped and reached Marisa.
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