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1 Maccabees 3:38-40
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
1 Maccabees 3:38-40
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Preparations for Battle
38 Lys′ias chose Ptol′emy the son of Dorym′enes, and Nica′nor and Gor′gias, mighty men among the friends of the king, 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 departed with their entire force, and when they arrived they encamped near Emma′us in the plain.
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