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53 they drove Israel into hiding in every place of refuge they had.

54 Now on the fifteenth day of Chislev, in the one hundred and forty-fifth year,[a] they erected a desolating sacrilege on the altar of burnt-offering. They also built altars in the surrounding towns of Judah, 55 and offered incense at the doors of the houses and in the streets.

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  1. 1 Maccabees 1:54 167 bc

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