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1 Maccabees 13:42
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42Then the people of Israel began to write in their instruments and contracts, In the first year of Simon the high priest, the governor and leader of the Jews.
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40And look who are meet among you to be in our court, let then be enrolled, and let there be peace betwixt us.
41Thus the yoke of the heathen was taken away from Israel in the hundred and seventieth year.
— 1 Maccabees 13:42 —
43In those days Simon camped against Gaza and besieged it round about; he made also an engine of war, and set it by the city, and battered a certain tower, and took it.
44And they that were in the engine leaped into the city; whereupon there was a great uproar in the city: