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and that they committed their government to one man every year, who ruled over all their country, and that all were obedient to that one, and that there was neither envy nor emulation among them.
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yet for all this, none of them wore a crown or was clothed in purple to be magnified thereby;
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moreover how they had made for themselves a senate house wherein three hundred and twenty men sat in council daily, consulting always for the people, to the end that they might be well ordered;
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and that they committed their government to one man every year, who ruled over all their country, and that all were obedient to that one, and that there was neither envy nor emulation among them.
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In consideration of these things, Judas chose Eupolemus the son of John, the son of Accos, and Jason the son of Eleazar, and sent them to Rome to make a league of amity and confederacy with them,
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and to entreat them that they would take the yoke from them; for they saw that the kingdom of the Grecians oppressed Israel with servitude.
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