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So then they engaged them in battle with all speed.
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However they answered them not, neither cast they a stone at them nor shut up the places where they lay hidden,
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but said, "Let us all die in our innocency. Heaven and earth shall testify for us that you put us to death wrongfully."
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So they rose up against them in battle on the Sabbath, and they slew them, with their wives and children and their cattle, to the number of a thousand people.
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Now when Mattathias and his friends learned of this, they mourned for them sorely.
Third Millennium Bible (TMB), New Authorized Version, Copyright 1998 by Deuel Enterprises, Inc., Gary, SD 57237. All rights reserved.