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1 Maccabees 3:38-40
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
1 Maccabees 3:38-40
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Preparations for Battle
38 Lysias chose Ptolemy son of Dorymenes and Nicanor and Gorgias, able men among the Friends of the king,(A) 39 and sent with them forty thousand infantry and seven thousand cavalry to go into the land of Judah and destroy it, as the king had commanded. 40 So they set out with their entire force, and when they arrived they encamped near Emmaus in the plain.(B)
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