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and said to Edna his wife, “Send one of the maidservants, and let them see if he is alive. If not, we will bury him, and no man will know it.”


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Then Raguel blessed God, saying, “Blessed are you, O God, with all pure and holy blessing! Let your saints bless you, and all your creatures! Let all your angels and your elect bless you forever!


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Blessed are you, because you have made me glad; and it has not happened to me as I suspected; but you have dealt with us according to your great mercy.


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Blessed are you, because you have had mercy on two that were the only begotten children of their parents. Show them mercy, O Lord. Fulfil their life in health with gladness and mercy.


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Before the days of the wedding feast were finished, Raguel sware to him, that he should not depart till the fourteen days of the wedding feast were fulfilled;


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and that then he should take half of his goods, and go in safety to his father; and the rest, said he, when my wife and I die.


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“Brother Azarias, take with you a servant and two camels, and go to Rages of Media to Gabael, and receive the money for me, and bring him to the wedding feast,


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So Raphael went on his way, and lodged with Gabael, and gave him the handwriting; so he brought forth the bags with their seals, and gave them to him.


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Then they rose up early in the morning together, and came to the wedding feast. Tobias blessed his wife.


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Tobit his father counted every day. When the days of the journey were expired, and they didn’t come,


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he said, “Is he perchance detained?  Or is Gabael perchance dead, and there is no one to give him the money?”


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But his wife said to him, “The child has perished, seeing he waits long.” She began to bewail him, and said,


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And she said to him, “Hold your peace. Don’t deceive me. My child has perished.” And she went out every day into the way by which they went, and ate no bread in the day-time, and didn’t stop bewailing her son Tobias for whole nights, until the fourteen days of the wedding feast were expired, which Raguel had sworn that he should spend there.
Then Tobias said to Raguel, “Send me away, for my father and my mother look no more to see me.”


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But his father-in-law said to him, “Stay with me, and I will send to your father, and they will declare to him how things go with you.”


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and he blessed them, and sent them away, saying, “The God of heaven will prosper you, my children, before I die.”


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And he said to his daughter, “Honour your father-in-law and your mother-in-law. They are now your parents. Let me hear a good report of you. Then he kissed her.
Edna said to Tobias, “May the Lord of heaven restore you, dear brother, and grant to me that I may see your children of my daughter Sarah, that I may rejoice before the Lord. Behold, I commit my daughter to you in special trust. Don’t cause her grief.


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After these things Tobias also went his way, blessing God because he had prospered his journey; and he blessed Raguel and Edna his wife. Then he went on his way until they drew near to Nineveh.


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She saw him coming, and said to his father, “Behold, your son is coming with the man that went with him!”


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Therefore anoint his eyes with the bile, and being pricked with it, he will rub, and will make the white films fall away. Then he will see you.”


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Anna ran to him, and fell upon the neck of her son, and said to him, “I have seen you, my child! I am ready to die.” They wept both.


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and took hold of his father. He rubbed the bile on his father’s eyes, saying, “Cheer up, my father.”


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Then the white films peeled away from the corners of his eyes; and he saw his son, and fell upon his neck.


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He wept, and said, “Blessed are you, O God, and blessed is your name forever! Blessed are all your holy angels!


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For you scourged, and had mercy on me. Behold, I see my son Tobias.” And his son went in rejoicing, and told his father the great things that had happened to him in Media.


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Tobit went out to meet his daughter-in-law at the gate of Nineveh, rejoicing, and blessing God. Those who saw him go marvelled, because he had received his sight.


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Tobit gave thanks before them, because God had shown mercy on him. When Tobit came near to Sarah his daughter-in-law, he blessed her, saying, “Welcome, daughter! Blessed is God who has brought you to us, and blessed are your father and your mother.” And there was joy amongst all his kindred who were at Nineveh.


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And Tobit called his son Tobias, and said to him, “See, my child, that the man which went with you have his wages, and you must give him more.”


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And he said to him, “Father, it is no harm to me to give him the half of those things which I have brought;


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for he has led me for you in safety, and he cured my wife, and brought my money, and likewise cured you.”


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Then he called them both privately, and said to them, “Bless God, and give him thanks, and magnify him, and give him thanks in the sight of all that live, for the things which he has done with you. It is good to bless God and exalt his name, showing forth with honour the works of God. Don’t be slack to give him thanks.


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It is good to keep close the secret of a king, but to reveal gloriously the works of God. Do good, and evil won’t find you.


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Good is prayer with fasting, alms, and righteousness. A little with righteousness is better than much with unrighteousness. It is better to give alms than to lay up gold.


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Alms delivers from death, and it purges away all sin. Those who give alms and do righteousness will be filled with life;


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Surely I will keep nothing closed from you. I have said, ‘It is good to keep close the secret of a king, but to reveal gloriously the works of God.’


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And now, when you prayed, and Sarah your daughter-in-law, I brought the memorial of your prayer before the Holy One. When you buried the dead, I was with you likewise.


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And when you didn’t delay to rise up, and leave your dinner, that you might go and cover the dead, your good deed was not hidden from me. I was with you.


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I am Raphael, one of the seven holy angels, which present the prayers of the saints, and go in before the glory of the Holy One.”


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Now give God thanks, because I ascend to him that sent me. Write in a book all the things which have been done.”


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They confessed the great and wonderful works of God, and how the angel of the Lord had appeared to them.


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And Tobit wrote a prayer for rejoicing, and said,
“Blessed is God who lives forever!
Blessed is his kingdom!


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For he scourges, and shows mercy.
He leads down to the grave,  and brings up again.
There is no one that will escape his hand.


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Give thanks to him before the Gentiles, all you children of Israel!
For he has scattered us amongst them.


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Declare his greatness, there.
Extol him before all the living;
because he is our Lord,
and God is our Father forever.


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He will scourge us for our iniquities, and will again show mercy,
and will gather us out of all the nations amongst whom you are all scattered.


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If you turn to him with your whole heart and with your whole soul,
to do truth before him,
then he will turn to you,
and won’t hide his face from you.
See what he will do with you.
Give him thanks with your whole mouth.
Bless the Lord of righteousness.
Exalt the everlasting King.
I give him thanks in the land of my captivity,
and show his strength and majesty to a nation of sinners.
Turn, you sinners, and do righteousness before him.
Who can tell if he will accept you and have mercy on you?


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O Jerusalem, the holy city,
he will scourge you for the works of your sons,
and will again have mercy on the sons of the righteous.


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Give thanks to the Lord with goodness,
and bless the everlasting King,
that his tabernacle may be built in you again with joy,
and that he may make glad in you those who are captives,
and love in you forever those who are miserable.


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Many nations will come from afar to the name of the Lord God
with gifts in their hands, even gifts to the King of heaven.
Generations of generations will praise you,
and sing songs of rejoicing.


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Rejoice and be exceedingly glad for the sons of the righteous;
for they will be gathered together and will bless the Lord of the righteous.


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Oh blessed are those who love you.
They will rejoice for your peace.
Blessed are all those who sorrowed for all your scourges;
because they will rejoice for you when they have seen all your glory.
They will be made glad forever.


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For Jerusalem will be built with sapphires, emeralds, and precious stones;
your walls and towers and battlements with pure gold.


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All her streets will say, “Hallelujah!”
and give praise, saying, “Blessed be God, who has exalted you forever!”


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He was fifty-eight years old when he lost his sight. After eight years, he received it again. He gave alms and he feared the Lord God more and more, and gave thanks to him.


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Now he grew very old; and he called his son with the six sons of his son, and said to him, “My child, take your sons. Behold, I have grown old, and am ready to depart out of this life.


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Go into Media, my child, for I surely believe all the things which Jonah the prophet spoke of Nineveh, that it will be overthrown, but in Media there will rather be peace for a season. Our kindred will be scattered in the earth from the good land. Jerusalem will be desolate, and the house of God in it will be burnt up, and will be desolate for a time.


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God will again have mercy on them, and bring them back into the land, and they will build the house, but not like to the former house, until the times of that age are fulfilled. Afterward they will return from the places of their captivity, and build up Jerusalem with honour. The house of God will be built in it forever with a glorious building, even as the prophets spoke concerning it.


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All the nations will bless the Lord, and his people will give thanks to God, and the Lord will exalt his people; and all those who love the Lord God in truth and righteousness will rejoice, showing mercy to our kindred.


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And now, my child, depart from Nineveh, because those things which the prophet Jonah spoke will surely come to pass.


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But you must keep the law and the ordinances, and show yourself merciful and righteous, that it may be well with you.


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Bury me decently, and your mother with me. Don’t stay at Nineveh. See, my child, what Aman did to Achiacharus that nourished him, how out of light he brought him into darkness, and all the recompense that he made him. Achiacharus was saved, but the other had his recompense, and he went down into darkness. Manasses gave alms, and escaped the snare of death which he set for him; but Aman fell into the snare, and perished.


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And now, my children, consider what alms does, and how righteousness delivers.”
While he was saying these things, he gave up the ghost in the bed; but he was one hundred and fifty eight years old. Tobias buried him magnificently.


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When Anna died, he buried her with his father. But Tobias departed with his wife and his sons to Ecbatana to Raguel his father-in-law,


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and he grew old in honour, and he buried his father-in-law and mother-in-law magnificently, and he inherited their possessions, and his father Tobit’s.


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Before he died, he heard of the destruction of Nineveh, which Nebuchadnezzar and Ahasuerus took captive. Before his death, he rejoiced over Nineveh.


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In the twelfth year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, who reigned over the Assyrians in Nineveh, the great city, in the days of Arphaxad, who reigned over the Medes in Ecbatana,


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and built around Ecbatana walls of hewn stones three cubits broad and six cubits long, and made the height of the wall seventy cubits, and its breadth fifty cubits;


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and set its towers at its gates, one hundred cubits high, and its breadth in the foundation was sixty cubits;


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and made its gates, even gates that were raised to the height of seventy cubits, and their breadth forty cubits, for his mighty army to go out of, and the setting in array of his footmen—


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even in those days king Nebuchadnezzar made war with king Arphaxad in the great plain. This plain is on the borders of Ragau.


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There came to meet him all that lived in the hill country, and all that lived by Euphrates, Tigris, and Hydaspes, and in the plain of Arioch the king of the Elymaeans. Many nations of the sons of Chelod assembled themselves to the battle.


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And Nebuchadnezzar king of the Assyrians sent to all who lived in Persia, and to all who lived westward, to those who lived in Cilicia, Damascus, Libanus, and Antilibanus, and to all who lived along the sea coast,


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and to those amongst the nations that were of Carmel and Gilead, and to the higher Galilee and the great plain of Esdraelon,


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and to all who were in Samaria and its cities, and beyond Jordan to Jerusalem, Betane, Chellus, Kadesh, the river of Egypt, Tahpanhes, Rameses, and all the land of Goshen,


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until you come above Tanis and Memphis, and to all that lived in Egypt, until you come to the borders of Ethiopia.


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All those who lived in all the land made light of the commandment of Nebuchadnezzar king of the Assyrians, and didn’t go with him to the war; for they were not afraid of him, but he was before them as one man. They turned away his messengers from their presence without effect, and with disgrace.


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And Nebuchadnezzar was exceedingly angry with all this land, and he swore by his throne and kingdom, that he would surely be avenged upon all the coasts of Cilicia, Damascus, and Syria, that he would kill with his sword all the inhabitants of the land of Moab, and the children of Ammon, all Judea, and all that were in Egypt, until you come to the borders of the two seas.


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And he set the battle in array with his army against king Arphaxad in the seventeenth year; and he prevailed in his battle, and turned to flight all the army of Arphaxad, with all his horses and all his chariots.


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He became master of his cities, and he came even to Ecbatana, and took the towers, plundered its streets, and turned its beauty into shame.


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He took Arphaxad in the mountains of Ragau, struck him through with his darts, and utterly destroyed him, to this day.


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He returned with them to Nineveh, he and all his company of sundry nations, an exceedingly great multitude of men of war, and there he took his ease and banqueted, he and his army, for one hundred and twenty days.


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In the eighteenth year, the twenty-second day of the first month, there was talk in the house of Nebuchadnezzar king of the Assyrians, that he should be avenged on all the land, even as he spoke.


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He called together all his servants and all his great men, and communicated with them his secret counsel, and concluded the afflicting of all the land out of his own mouth.


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It came to pass, when he had ended his counsel, Nebuchadnezzar king of the Assyrians called Holofernes the chief captain of his army, which was next after himself, and said to him,


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“The great king, the lord of all the earth, says: Behold, you shall go out from my presence, and take with you men who trust in their strength, to one hundred and twenty thousand footmen and twelve thousand horses with their riders.


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And you shall go out against all the west country, because they disobeyed the commandment of my mouth.


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You shall declare to them that they should prepare earth and water, because I will go out in my wrath against them, and will cover the whole face of the earth with the feet of my army, and I will give them as plunder to them.


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Their slain will fill their valleys and brooks, and the river will be filled with their dead until it overflows.


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But you shall go forth, and take all their coasts for me first. If they will yield themselves to you,  then you must reserve them for me until the day of their reproof.


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As for those who are disobedient, your eye shall not spare; but you shall give them up to be slain and to be plundered in all your land.


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Moreover, you shall not transgress anything of the commandments of your lord, but you shall surely accomplish them, as I have commanded you. You shall not defer to do them.”


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So Holofernes went out from the presence of his lord, and called all the governors, the captains, and officers of the army of Asshur.


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He counted chosen men for the battle, as his lord had commanded him, to one hundred and twenty thousand, with twelve thousand archers on horseback.


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He took camels and asses and mules for their baggage, an exceedingly great multitude, and sheep and oxen and goats without number for their provision,


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and great store of rations for every man, and exceedingly much gold and silver out of the king’s house.


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He went out, he and all his army, on their journey, to go before king Nebuchadnezzar, and to cover all the face of the earth westward with their chariots, horsemen, and chosen footmen.


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A great company of various nations went out with them like locusts, and like the sand of the earth. For they could not be counted by reason of their multitude.


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And they departed out of Nineveh three days’ journey towards the plain of Bectileth, and encamped from Bectileth near the mountain which is at the left hand of the upper Cilicia.


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And he took all his army, his footmen, horsemen, and chariots, and went away from there into the hill country,


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and destroyed Put and Lud, and plundered all the children of Rasses and the children of Ishmael, which were along the wilderness to the south of the land of the Chellians.


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And he went over Euphrates, and went through Mesopotamia, and broke down all the high cities that were upon the river Arbonai, until you come to the sea.


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And he took possession of the borders of Cilicia, and killed all that resisted him, and came to the borders of Japheth, which were towards the south, opposite Arabia.


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He surrounded all the children of Midian, and set their tents on fire, and plundered their sheepfolds.


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He went down into the plain of Damascus in the days of wheat harvest, and set all their fields on fire, and utterly destroyed their flocks and herds, and plundered their cities, laid their plains waste, and struck all their young men with the edge of the sword.


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And the fear and the dread of him fell upon those who lived on the sea coast, upon those who were in Sidon and Tyre, those who lived in Sur and Ocina, and all who lived in Jemnaan. Those who lived in Azotus and Ascalon feared him exceedingly.


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“Behold, we the servants of Nebuchadnezzar the great king lie before you. Use us as it is pleasing in your sight.


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Behold, our dwellings, and all our country, and all our fields of wheat, and our flocks and herds, and all the sheepfolds of our tents, lie before your face. Use them as it may please you.


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Behold, even our cities and those who dwell in them are your servants. Come and deal with them as it is good in your eyes.”


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He came down towards the sea coast, he and his army, and set garrisons in the high cities, and took out of them chosen men for allies.


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They received him, they and all the country round about them, with garlands and dances and timbrels.


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He cast down all their borders, and cut down their sacred groves. It had been given to him to destroy all the gods of the land, that all the nations would worship Nebuchadnezzar only, and that all their tongues and their tribes would call upon him as god.


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He encamped between Geba and Scythopolis. He was there a whole month, that he might gather together all the baggage of his army.


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The children of Israel that lived in Judea heard all that Holofernes the chief captain of Nebuchadnezzar king of the Assyrians had done to the nations, and how he had plundered all their temples and destroyed them utterly.


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They were exceedingly afraid before him, and were troubled for Jerusalem, and for the temple of the Lord their God;


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because they had newly come up from the captivity, and all the people of Judea were recently gathered together; and the vessels, the altar, and the house were sanctified after being profaned.


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And they sent into every coast of Samaria, to Konae, to Beth-horon, Belmaim, Jericho, to Choba, Aesora, and to the valley of Salem;


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and they occupied beforehand all the tops of the high mountains, fortified the villages that were in them, stored supplies for the provision of war; for their fields were newly reaped.


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Joakim the high priest, who was in those days at Jerusalem, wrote to those who lived in Bethulia, and Betomesthaim, which is opposite Esdraelon towards the plain that is near to Dothaim,


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charging them to seize upon the ascents of the hill country; because by them was the entrance into Judea, and it was easy to stop them from approaching, inasmuch as the approach was narrow, with space for two men at the most.


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And the children of Israel did as Joakim the high priest had commanded them, as did the senate of all the people of Israel, which lived at Jerusalem.


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And every man of Israel cried to God with great earnestness, and with great earnestness they humbled their souls.


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They, their wives, their children, their cattle, and every sojourner, hireling, and servant bought with their money put sackcloth on their loins.


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Every man and woman of Israel, and the little children, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, fell before the temple, and cast ashes upon their heads, and spread out their sackcloth before the Lord. They put sackcloth around the altar.


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They cried to the God of Israel earnestly with one consent, that he would not give their children as prey, their wives as plunder, the cities of their inheritance to destruction, and the sanctuary to being profaned and being made a reproach, for the nations to rejoice at.


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The Lord heard their voice, and looked at their affliction. The people continued fasting many days in all Judea and Jerusalem before the sanctuary of the Lord Almighty.


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And Joakim the high priest, and all the priests that stood before the Lord, and those who ministered to the Lord, had their loins dressed in sackcloth, and offered the continual burnt offering, the vows, and the free gifts of the people.


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They had ashes on their hats. They cried to the Lord with all their power, that he would look upon all the house of Israel for good.


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Holofernes, the chief captain of the army of Asshur, was told that the children of Israel had prepared for war, had shut up the passages of the hill country, had fortified all the tops of the high hills, and had laid impediments in the plains.


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Then he was exceedingly angry, and he called all the princes of Moab, and the captains of Ammon, and all the governors of the sea coast,


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and he said to them, “Tell me now, you sons of Canaan, who are these people who dwell in the hill country? What are the cities that they inhabit? How large is their army? Where is their power and their strength? What king is set over them, to be the leader of their army?


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Why have they turned their backs, that they should not come and meet me, more than all that dwell in the west?”


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Then Achior, the leader of all the children of Ammon, said to him, “Let my lord now hear a word from the mouth of your servant, and I will tell you the truth concerning these people who dwell in this hill country, near to the place where you dwell. No lie will come out of the mouth of your servant.


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They sojourned before this in Mesopotamia, because they didn’t want to follow the gods of their fathers, which were in the land of the Chaldeans.


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They departed from the way of their parents, and worshipped the God of heaven, the God whom they knew. Their parents cast them out from the face of their gods, and they fled into Mesopotamia, and sojourned there many days.


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Then their God commanded them to depart from the place where they sojourned, and to go into the land of Canaan. They lived there, and prospered with gold and silver, and with exceedingly much cattle.


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Then they went down into Egypt, for a famine covered all the land of Canaan. They sojourned there until they had grown up. They became a great multitude there, so that one could not count the population of their nation.


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Then the king of Egypt rose up against them, and dealt subtly with them, and brought them low, making them labour in brick,  and made them slaves.


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They cried to their God, and he struck all the land of Egypt with incurable plagues; so the Egyptians cast them out of their sight.


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and brought them into the way of Sinai Kadesh-Barnea, and they cast out all that lived in the wilderness.


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They lived in the land of the Amorites, and they destroyed by their strength everyone in Heshbon. Passing over Jordan, they possessed all the hill country.


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They cast out before them the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, the Shechemite, and all the Girgashites, and they lived in that country many days.


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And while they didn’t sin before their God, they prospered, because God who hates iniquity was with them.


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But when they departed from the way which he appointed them, they were destroyed in many severe battles, and were led captives into a land that was not theirs. The temple of their God was cast to the ground, and their cities were taken by their adversaries.


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And now they have returned to their God, and have come up from the dispersion where they were dispersed, and have possessed Jerusalem, where their sanctuary is, and are seated in the hill country; for it was desolate.


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And now, my lord and master, if there is any error in this people, and they sin against their God, we will consider what this thing is in which they stumble, and we will go up and overcome them.


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But if there is no lawlessness in their nation, let my lord now pass by, lest their Lord defend them, and their God be for them, and we will be a reproach before all the earth.”


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It came to pass, when Achior had finished speaking these words, all the people standing around the tent murmured. The great men of Holofernes, and all that lived by the sea side and in Moab, said that he should kill him.


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For, they said, “We will not be afraid of the children of Israel, because, behold, they are a people that has no power nor might to make the battle strong.


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Therefore now we will go up, and they will be a prey to be devoured by all your army, Lord Holofernes.”


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And when the disturbance of the men that were around the council had ceased, Holofernes the chief captain of the army of Asshur said to Achior and to all the children of Moab  before all the people of the foreigners,


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“And who are you, Achior, and the hirelings of Ephraim,  that you have prophesied amongst us as today, and have said that we should not make war with the race of Israel, because their God will defend them? And who is God but Nebuchadnezzar?


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He will send forth his might, and will destroy them from the face of the earth, and their God will not deliver them; but we his servants will strike them as one man. They will not sustain the might of our horses.


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For with them we will burn them up. Their mountains will be drunken with their blood. Their plains will be filled with their dead bodies. Their footsteps will not stand before us, but they will surely perish, says king Nebuchadnezzar, lord of all the earth; for he said, ‘The words that I have spoken  will not be in vain.’


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But you, Achior, hireling of Ammon, who have spoken these words in the day of your iniquity, will see my face no more from this day, until I am avenged of the race of those that came out of Egypt.


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And then the sword of my army, and the multitude of those who serve me, will pass through your sides, and you will fall amongst their slain when I return.


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Then my servants will bring you back into the hill country, and will set you in one of the cities of the ascents.


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And if you hope in your heart that they will not be taken, don’t let your countenance fall. I have spoken it, and none of my words will fall to the ground.”


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Then Holofernes commanded his servants who waited in his tent to take Achior, and bring him back to Bethulia, and deliver him into the hands of the children of Israel.


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So his servants took him, and brought him out of the camp into the plain, and they moved from the midst of the plains into the hill country, and came to the springs that were under Bethulia.


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When the men of the city saw them on the top of the hill, they took up their weapons, and went out of the city against them to the top of the hill. Every man that used a sling kept them from coming up, and cast stones against them.


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They took cover under the hill, bound Achior, cast him down, left him at the foot of the hill, and went away to their lord.


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But the children of Israel descended from their city, and came to him, untied him, led him away into Bethulia, and presented him to the rulers of their city;


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which were in those days Ozias the son of Micah, of the tribe of Simeon, and Chabris the son of Gothoniel, and Charmis the son of Melchiel.


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Then they called together all the elders of the city; and all their young men ran together, with their women, to the assembly. They set Achior in the midst of all their people. Then Ozias asked him what had happened.


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He answered and declared to them the words of the council of Holofernes, and all the words that he had spoken in the midst of the princes of the children of Asshur, and all the great words that Holofernes had spoken against the house of Israel.


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“O Lord God of heaven, behold their arrogance, and pity the low estate of our race. Look upon the face of those who are sanctified to you this day.”


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Then Ozias took him out of the assembly into his house, and made a feast for the elders. They called on the God of Israel for help all that night.


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The next day Holofernes commanded all his army and all the people who had come to be his allies, that they should move their camp towards Bethulia, take beforehand the ascents of the hill country, and make war against the children of Israel.


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Every mighty man of them moved that day. The army of their men of war was one hundred and seventy thousand footmen, plus twelve thousand horsemen, besides the baggage, and the men that were on foot amongst them: an exceedingly great multitude.


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They encamped in the valley near Bethulia, by the fountain. They spread themselves in breadth over Dothaim even to Belmaim, and in length from Bethulia to Cyamon, which is near Esdraelon.


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But the children of Israel, when they saw the multitude of them, were troubled exceedingly, and everyone said to his neighbour, “Now these men will lick up the face of all the earth. Neither the high mountains, nor the valleys, nor the hills will be able to bear their weight.


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Every man took up his weapons of war, and when they had kindled fires upon their towers, they remained and watched all that night.


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But on the second day Holofernes led out all his cavalry in the sight of the children of Israel which were in Bethulia,


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viewed the ascents to their city, and searched out the springs of the waters, seized upon them, and set garrisons of men of war over them. Then he departed back to his people.


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All the rulers of the children of Esau, all the leaders of the people of Moab, and the captains of the sea coast came to him and said,


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For this people of the children of Israel do not trust in their spears, but in the height of the mountains wherein they dwell, for it is not easy to come up to the tops of their mountains.


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And now, my lord, don’t fight against them as men fight who join battle, and there will not so much as one man of your people perish.


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Remain in your camp, and keep every man of your army safe. Let your servants get possession of the water spring, which flows from the foot of the mountain,


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because all the inhabitants of Bethulia get their water from there. Then thirst will kill them, and they will give up their city. Then we and our people will go up to the tops of the mountains that are near, and will encamp upon them, to watch that not one man gets out of the city.


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They will be consumed with famine, they and their wives and their children. Before the sword comes against them they will be laid low in the streets where they dwell.


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Their words were pleasing in the sight of Holofernes and in the sight of all his servants; and he ordered them to do as they had spoken.


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And the army of the children of Ammon moved, and with them five thousand of the children of Asshur, and they encamped in the valley. They seized the waters and the springs of the waters of the children of Israel.


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The children of Esau went up with the children of Ammon, and encamped in the hill country near Dothaim. They sent some of them towards the south, and towards the east, near Ekrebel, which is near Chusi, that is upon the brook Mochmur. The rest of the army of the Assyrians encamped in the plain, and covered all the face of the land. Their tents and baggage were pitched upon it in a great crowd. They were an exceedingly great multitude.


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The children of Israel cried to the Lord their God, for their spirit fainted; for all their enemies had surrounded them. There was no way to escape out from amongst them.


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All the army of Asshur remained around them, their footmen and their chariots and their horsemen, thirty-four days. All their vessels of water ran dry for all the inhabitants of Bethulia.


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The cisterns were emptied, and they had no water to drink their fill for one day; for they rationed drink by measure.


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Their young children were discouraged. The women and the young men fainted for thirst. They fell down in the streets of the city, and in the passages of the gates. There was no longer any strength in them.


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All the people, including the young men, the women, and the children, were gathered together against Ozias, and against the rulers of the city. They cried with a loud voice, and said before all the elders,


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“God be judge between all of you and us, because you have done us great wrong, in that you have not spoken words of peace with the children of Asshur.


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Now we have no helper; but God has sold us into their hands, that we should be laid low before them with thirst and great destruction.


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And now summon them, and deliver up the whole city as prey to the people of Holofernes, and to all his army.


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For it is better for us to be made a plunder to them. For we will be servants, and our souls will live, and we will not see the death of our babies before our eyes, and our wives and our children fainting in death.


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We take to witness against you the heaven and the earth, and our God and the Lord of our fathers, who punishes us according to our sins and the sins of our fathers. Do what we have said today!”


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And there was great weeping of all with one consent in the midst of the assembly; and they cried to the Lord God with a loud voice.


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And Ozias said to them, “Brethren, be of good courage! Let us endure five more days, during which the Lord our God will turn his mercy towards us; for he will not forsake us utterly.


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Then he dispersed the people, every man to his own camp; and they went away to the walls and towers of their city. He sent the women and children into their houses. They were brought very low in the city.


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In those days Judith heard about this. She was the daughter of Merari, the son of Ox, the son of Joseph, the son of Oziel, the son of Elkiah, the son of Ananias, the son of Gideon, the son of Raphaim, the son of Ahitub, the son of Elihu, the son of Eliab, the son of Nathanael, the son of Salamiel, the son of Salasadai, the son of Israel.


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For he stood over those who bound sheaves in the field, and the heat came upon his head, and he fell on his bed, and died in his city Bethulia. So they buried him with his fathers in the field which is between Dothaim and Balamon.


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She made herself a tent upon the roof of her house, and put on sackcloth upon her loins. The garments of her widowhood were upon her.


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And she fasted all the days of her widowhood, except the eves of the Sabbaths, the Sabbaths, the eves of the new moons, the new moons, and the feasts and joyful days of the house of Israel.


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She was of a goodly countenance, and exceedingly beautiful to behold. Her husband Manasses had left her gold, silver, menservants, maidservants, cattle, and lands. She remained on those lands.


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She heard the evil words of the people against the governor, because they fainted for lack of water; and Judith heard all the words that Ozias spoke to them, how he swore to them that he would deliver the city to the Assyrians after five days.


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So she sent her maid, who was over all things that she had, to summon Ozias, Chabris, and Charmis, the elders of her city.


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They came to her, and she said to them, “Hear me now, O you rulers of the inhabitants of Bethulia: for your word that you have spoken before the people this day is not right. You have set the oath which you have pronounced between God and you, and have promised to deliver the city to our enemies, unless within these days the Lord turns to help you.


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Now who are you that you have tempted God this day, and stand in the place of God amongst the children of men?


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For you will not find the depth of the heart of man, and you will not perceive the things that he thinks. How will you search out God, who has made all these things, and know his mind, and comprehend his purpose? No, my kindred, don’t provoke the Lord our God to anger!


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For if he has not decided to help us within these five days, he has power to defend us in such time as he will, or to destroy us before the face of our enemies.


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But don’t you pledge the counsels of the Lord our God! For God is not as man, that he should be threatened; neither as the son of man, that he should be turned by entreaty.


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Therefore let’s wait for the salvation that comes from him, and call upon him to help us. He will hear our voice, if it pleases him.


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For there arose none in our age, neither is there any of us today, tribe, or kindred, or family, or city, which worship gods made with hands, as it was in the former days;


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for which cause our fathers were given to the sword, and for plunder, and fell with a great fall before our enemies.


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But we know no other god beside him. Therefore we hope that he will not despise us, nor any of our race.


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For if we are taken so, all Judea will sit upon the ground, and our sanctuary will be plundered; and he will require our blood for profaning it.


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And the slaughter of our kindred, and the captivity of the land, and the desolation of our inheritance, he will turn upon our heads amongst the Gentiles, wherever we will be in bondage. We will be an offence and a reproach before those who take us for a possession.


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And now, kindred, let’s show an example to our kindred, because their soul hangs upon us, and the sanctuary, the house, and the altar rest upon us.


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Besides all this let’s give thanks to the Lord our God, who tries us, even as he did our fathers also.


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Remember all the things which he did to Abraham, and all the things in which he tried Isaac, and all the things which happened to Jacob in Mesopotamia of Syria, when he kept the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother.


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For he has not tried us in the fire, as he did them, to search out their hearts, neither has he taken vengeance on us; but the Lord does scourge them that come near to him, to admonish them.”


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And Ozias said to her, “All that you have spoken, you have spoken with a good heart. There is no one who will deny your words.


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For this is not the first day wherein your wisdom is manifested; but from the beginning of your days all the people have known your understanding, because the disposition of your heart is good.


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But the people were exceedingly thirsty, and compelled us to do as we spoke to them, and to bring an oath upon ourselves, which we will not break.


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And now pray you for us, because you are a godly woman, and the Lord will send us rain to fill our cisterns, and we will faint no more.”


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Then Judith said to them, “Hear me, and I will do a thing, which will go down to all generations amongst the children of our race.


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You shall all stand at the gate tonight. I will go out with my maid. Within the days after which you said that you would deliver the city to our enemies, the Lord will visit Israel by my hand.


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But you shall not enquire of my act; for I will not declare it to you, until the things are finished that I will do.”


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Then Ozias and the rulers said to her, “Go in peace. May the Lord God be before you, to take vengeance on our enemies.”


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But Judith fell upon her face, and put ashes upon her head, and uncovered the sackcloth with which she was clothed. The incense of that evening was now being offered at Jerusalem in the house of God, and Judith cried to the Lord with a loud voice, and said,


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“O Lord God of my father Simeon, into whose hand you gave a sword to take vengeance on the strangers who loosened the belt of a virgin to defile her, uncovered the thigh to her shame, and profaned the womb to her reproach; for you said, ‘It shall not be so;’ and they did so.


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Therefore you gave their rulers to be slain, and their bed, which was ashamed for her who was deceived,  to be dyed in blood, and struck the servants with their masters, and the masters upon their thrones;


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and gave their wives for a prey, and their daughters to be captives, and all their spoils to be divided amongst your dear children; which were moved with zeal for you, and abhorred the pollution of their blood, and called upon you for aid. O God, O my God, hear me also who am a widow.


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For you did the things that were before those things, and those things, and such as come after; and you planned the things which are now, and the things which are to come. The things which you planned came to pass.


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Yes, the things which you determined stood before you, and said, ‘Behold, we are here; for all your ways are prepared, and your judgement is with foreknowledge.’


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For, behold, the Assyrians are multiplied in their power. They are exalted with horse and rider. They were proud of the strength of their footmen. They have trusted in shield, spear, bow, and sling. They don’t know that you are the Lord who breaks the battles. ‘The Lord’ is your name.


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Break their strength in your power, and bring down their force in your wrath; for they intend to profane your sanctuary, and to defile the tabernacle where your glorious name rests, and to destroy the horn of your altar with the sword.


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Look at their pride, and send your wrath upon their heads. Give into my hand, which am a widow, the might that I have conceived.


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Strike by the deceit of my lips the servant with the prince, and the prince with his servant. Break down their arrogance by the hand of a woman.


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For your power stands not in multitude, nor your might in strong men: but you are a God of the afflicted. You are a helper of the minorities, a helper of the weak, a protector of the forsaken, a saviour of those who are without hope.


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Yes, yes, God of my father, and God of the inheritance of Israel, Lord of the heavens and of the earth. Creator of the waters, King of every creature,  hear my prayer.


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Make my speech and deceit to be their wound and stripe, who intend hard things against your covenant, your holy house, the top of Sion, and the house of the possession of your children.


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Make every nation and tribe of yours to know that you are God, the God of all power and might, and that there is none other that protects the race of Israel but you.”


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It came to pass, when she had ceased to cry to the God of Israel, and had finished saying all these words,


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that she rose up where she had fallen down, called her maid, and went down into the house that she used to live in on the Sabbath days and on her feast days.


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She pulled off the sackcloth which she had put on, took off the garments of her widowhood, washed her body all over with water, anointed herself with rich ointment, braided the hair of her head, and put a tiara upon it. She put on her garments of gladness, which she used to wear in the days of the life of Manasses her husband.


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She took sandals for her feet, and put her chains around her, and her bracelets, her rings, her earrings, and all her jewellery, and decked herself bravely, to deceive the eyes of all men who would see her.


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She gave her maid a leather container of wine and a flask of oil, and filled a bag with parched corn, lumps of figs, and fine  bread. She packed all her vessels together, and laid them upon her.


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They went out to the gate of the city of Bethulia, and found Ozias and the elders of the city, Chabris and Charmis standing by it.


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But when they saw her, that her countenance was altered and her apparel was changed, they wondered at her beauty very exceedingly, and said to her,


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“May the God of our fathers give you favour, and accomplish your purposes to the glory of the children of Israel, and to the exaltation of Jerusalem.”
Then she worshipped God,


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and said to them, “Command that they open the gate of the city for me, and I will go out to accomplish the things you spoke with me about.”
And they commanded the young men to open to her, as she had spoken;


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and they did so.
Then Judith went out, she, and her handmaid with her. The men of the city watched her until she had gone down the mountain, until she had passed the valley, and they could see her no more.


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and they took her, and asked her, “Of what people are you? Where are you coming from? Where are you going?”
She said, “I am a daughter of the Hebrews. I am fleeing away from their presence, because they are about to be given you to be consumed.


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I am coming into the presence of Holofernes the chief captain of your army, to declare words of truth. I will show him a way that he can go and win all the hill country, and there will not be lacking of his men one person, nor one life.”


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Now when the men heard her words, and considered her countenance, the beauty thereof was exceedingly marvellous in their eyes. They said to her,


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“You have saved your life, in that you have hurried to come down to the presence of our master. Now come to his tent. Some of us will guide you until they deliver you into his hands.


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But when  you stand before him, don’t be afraid in your heart, but declare to him according to your words; and he will treat you well.”


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They chose out of them a hundred men, and appointed them to accompany her and her maid; and they brought them to the tent of Holofernes.


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And there was great excitement throughout all the camp, for her coming was reported amongst the tents. They came and surrounded her as she stood outside Holofernes’ tent, until they told him about her.


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They marvelled at her beauty, and marvelled at the children of Israel because of her. Each one said to his neighbour, “Who would despise this people, that have amongst them such women? For it is not good that one man of them be left, seeing that, if they are let go, they will be able to deceive the whole earth.


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And Holofernes was resting upon his bed under the canopy, which was woven with purple, gold, emeralds, and precious stones.


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And they told him about her; and he came out into the space before his tent, with silver lamps going before him.


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But when Judith had come before him and his servants, they all marvelled at the beauty of her countenance. She fell down upon her face, and bowed down to him, but his servants raised her up.


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Holofernes said to her, “Woman, take courage. Don’t be afraid in your heart; for I never hurt anyone who has chosen to serve Nebuchadnezzar, the king of all the earth.


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And now, if your people who dwell in the hill country had not slighted me, I would not have lifted up my spear against them; but they have done these things to themselves.


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And now tell me why you fled from them and came to us; for you have come to save yourself. Take courage! You will live tonight, and hereafter;


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for there is no one that will wrong you, but all will treat you well, as is done to the servants of king Nebuchadnezzar my lord.”


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And Judith said to him, “Receive the words of your servant, and let your handmaid speak in your presence, and I will declare no lie to my lord this night.


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If you will follow the words of your handmaid, God will bring the thing to pass perfectly with you; and my lord will not fail to accomplish his purposes.


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As Nebuchadnezzar king of all the earth lives, and as his power lives, who has sent you for the preservation of every living thing, not only do men serve him by you, but also the beasts of the field, the cattle, and the birds of the sky will live through your strength, in the time of Nebuchadnezzar and of all his house.


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For we have heard of your wisdom and the subtle plans of your soul. It has been reported in all the earth that you only are brave in all the kingdom, mighty in knowledge, and wonderful in feats of war.


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And now as concerning the matter which Achior spoke in your council, we have heard his words; for the men of Bethulia saved him, and he declared to them all that he had spoken before you.


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Therefore, O lord and master, don’t neglect his word; but lay it up in your heart, for it is true; for our race will not be punished, neither will the sword prevail against them, unless they sin against their God.


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And now, that my lord be not defeated and frustrate of his purpose, and that death may fall upon them, their sin has overtaken them, wherewith they will provoke their God to anger, whenever they do wickedness.


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Since their food failed them, and all their water was scant, they took counsel to lay hands upon their cattle, and determined to consume all those things which God charged them by his laws that they should not eat.


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They are resolved to spend the first fruits of the corn, and the tenths of the wine and the oil, which they had sanctified and reserved for the priests who stand before the face of our God in Jerusalem; which things it is not fitting for any of the people so much as to touch with their hands.


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They have sent some to Jerusalem, because they also that dwell there have done this thing, to bring them permission from the council of elders.


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It will be, when word comes to them and they do it, they will be given to you to be destroyed the same day.


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Therefore I your servant, knowing all this, fled away from their presence. God sent me to work things with you, at which all the earth will be astonished, even as many as hear it.


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For your servant is religious, and serves the God of heaven day and night. Now, my lord, I will stay with you, and your servant will go out by night into the valley. I will pray to God, and he will tell me when they have committed their sins.


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Then I will come and show it also to you. Then you shall go out with all your army, and there will be none of them that will resist you.


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And I will lead you through the midst of Judea, until you come to Jerusalem. I will set your seat in the midst of it. You will drive them as sheep that have no shepherd, and a dog will not so much as open his mouth before you; for these things were told me according to my foreknowledge, and were declared to me, and I was sent to tell you.”


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Her words were pleasing in the sight of Holofernes and of all his servants. They marvelled at her wisdom, and said,


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“There is not such a woman from one end of the earth to the other, for beauty of face and wisdom of words.”


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Holofernes said to her, “God did well to send you before the people, that might would be in our hands, and destruction amongst those who slighted my lord.


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And now you are beautiful in your countenance, and wise in your words. If you will do as you have spoken, your God will be my God, and you will dwell in the house of king Nebuchadnezzar, and will be renowned through the whole earth.”


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He commanded that she should be brought in where his silver vessels were set, and asked that his servants should prepare some of his own meats for her, and that she should drink from his own wine.


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And Judith said, “I will not eat of it, lest there be an occasion of stumbling: but provision will be made for me of the things that have come with me.”


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And Holofernes said to her, “But if the things that are with you should fail, from where will we be able to give you more like it? For there is none of your race with us.”


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And Judith said to him, “As your soul lives, my lord, your servant will not spend those things that are with me, until the Lord works by my hand the things that he has determined.”


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Then Holofernes’ servants brought her into the tent, and she slept until midnight. Then she rose up towards the morning watch,


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and sent to Holofernes, saying, “Let my lord now command that they allow your servant to go out to pray.”


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Holofernes commanded his guards that they should not stop her. She stayed in the camp three days, and went out every night into the valley of Bethulia, and washed herself at the fountain of water in the camp.


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And when she came up, she implored the Lord God of Israel to direct her way to the raising up of the children of his people.


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It came to pass on the fourth day, that Holofernes made a feast for his own servants only, and called none of the officers to the banquet.


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And he said to Bagoas the eunuch, who had charge over all that he had, “Go now, and persuade this Hebrew woman who is with you that she come to us, and eat and drink with us.


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For, behold, it is a shame for our person, if we shall let such a woman go, not having had her company; for if we don’t draw her to ourselves, she will laugh us to scorn.”


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Bagoas went from the presence of Holofernes, and came in to her, and said, “Let this fair lady not fear to come to my lord, and to be honoured in his presence, and to drink wine and be merry with us, and to be made this day as one of the daughters of the children of Asshur, which wait in the house of Nebuchadnezzar.”


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Judith said to him, “Who am I, that I should contradict my lord? For whatever would be pleasing in his eyes, I will do speedily, and this will be my joy to the day of my death.”


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She arose, and decked herself with her apparel and all her woman’s attire; and her servant went and laid fleeces on the ground for her next to Holofernes, which she had received from Bagoas for her daily use, that she might sit and eat upon them.


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Judith came in and sat down, and Holofernes’ heart was ravished with her. His soul was moved, and he exceedingly desired her company. He was watching for a time to deceive her, from the day that he had seen her.


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Judith said, “I will drink now, my lord, because my life is magnified in me this day more than all the days since I was born.”


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Holofernes took great delight in her, and drank exceedingly much wine, more than he had drunk at any time in one day since he was born.


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But when the evening had come, his servants hurried to depart. Bagoas shut the tent outside, and dismissed those who waited from the presence of his lord. They went away to their beds; for they were all weary, because the feast had been long.


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But Judith was left alone in the tent, with Holofernes lying along upon his bed; for he was drunk with wine.


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Judith had said to her servant that she should stand outside her bedchamber, and wait for her to come out, as she did daily; for she said she would go out to her prayer. She spoke to Bagoas according to the same words.


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All went away from her presence, and none was left in the bedchamber, small or great. Judith, standing by his bed, said in her heart, O Lord God of all power, look in this hour upon the works of my hands for the exaltation of Jerusalem.


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For now is the time to help your inheritance, and to do the thing that I have purposed to the destruction of the enemies which have risen up against us.


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She came to the rail of the bed, which was at Holofernes’ head, and took down his scimitar from there.


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She drew near to the bed, took hold of the hair of his head, and said, “Strengthen me, O Lord God of Israel, this day.”


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tumbled his body down from the bed, and took down the canopy from the pillars. After a little while she went out, and gave Holofernes’ head to her maid;


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and she put it in her bag of food. They both went out together to prayer, according to their custom. They passed through the camp, circled around that valley, and went up to the mountain of Bethulia, and came to its gates.


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Judith said afar off to the watchmen at the gates, “Open, open the gate, now. God is with us, even our God, to show his power yet in Israel, and his might against the enemy, as he has done even this day.”


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It came to pass, when the men of her city heard her voice, they made haste to go down to the gate of their city, and they called together the elders of the city.


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They all ran together, both small and great, for it was strange to them that she had come. They opened the gate and received them, making a fire to give light, and surrounded them.


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She said to them with a loud voice, “Praise God! Praise him! Praise God, who has not taken away his mercy from the house of Israel, but has destroyed our enemies by my hand tonight!”


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Then she took the head out of the bag and showed it, and said to them, “Behold, the head of Holofernes, the chief captain of the army of Asshur, and behold, the canopy, in which he laid in his drunkenness. The Lord struck him by the hand of a woman.


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And as the Lord lives, who preserved me in my way that I went, my countenance deceived him to his destruction, and he didn’t commit sin with me, to defile and shame me.”


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All the people were exceedingly amazed, and bowed themselves, and worshipped God, and said with one accord, “Blessed are you, O our God, which have this day brought to nothing the enemies of your people.”


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Ozias said to her, “Blessed are you, daughter, in the sight of the Most High God, above all the women upon the earth; and blessed is the Lord God, who created the heavens and the earth, who directed you to cut off the head of the prince of our enemies.


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May God turn these things to you for a perpetual praise, to visit you with good things, because you didn’t spare your life by reason of the affliction of our race, but avenged our fall, walking a straight way before our God.”
And all the people said, “Amen! Amen!”


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Judith said to them, “Hear me now, my kindred, and take this head, and hang it upon the battlement of your wall.


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It will be, so soon as the morning appears, and the sun comes up on the earth, you shall each take up his weapons of war, and every valiant man of you go out of the city. You shall set a captain over them, as though you would go down to the plain towards the watch of the children of Asshur; but you men shall not go down.


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These shall take up their full armour, and shall go into their camp and rouse up the captains of the army of Asshur. They will run together to Holofernes’ tent. They won’t find him. Fear will fall upon them, and they will flee before your face.


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You men, and all that inhabit every coast of Israel, shall pursue them and overthrow them as they go.


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But before you do these things, summon Achior the Ammonite to me, that he may see and know him that despised the house of Israel, and that sent him to us, as it were to death.


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And they called Achior out of the house of Ozias; but when he came, and saw the head of Holofernes in a man’s hand in the assembly of the people, he fell upon his face, and his spirit failed.


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But when they had recovered him,  he fell at Judith’s feet, and bowed down to her, and said, “Blessed are you in every tent of Judah, and in every nation, which hearing your name will be troubled.


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Now tell me all the things that you have done in these days.”
And Judith declared to him in the midst of the people all the things that she had done, from the day that she went out until the time that she spoke to them.


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But when she finished speaking, the people shouted with a loud voice, and made a joyful noise in their city.


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But when Achior saw all the things that the God of Israel had done, he believed in God exceedingly, and circumcised the flesh of his foreskin, and was joined to the house of Israel, to this day.


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But as soon as the morning arose, they hanged the head of Holofernes upon the wall, and every man took up his weapons, and they went forth by bands to the ascents of the mountain.


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But when the children of Asshur saw them, they sent word to their leaders; but they went to their captains and tribunes, and to every one of their rulers.


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They came to Holofernes’ tent, and said to him that was over all that he had, “Wake our lord up, now; for the slaves have been bold to come down against us to battle, that they may be utterly destroyed.”


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Bagoas went in, and knocked at the outer door of the tent; for he supposed that he was sleeping with Judith.


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But when no one listened to him, he opened it, and went into the bedchamber, and found him cast upon the threshold dead, and his head had been taken from him.


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He entered into the tent where Judith lodged, and he didn’t find her. He leapt out to the people, and cried aloud,


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“The slaves have dealt treacherously! One woman of the Hebrews has brought shame upon the house of king Nebuchadnezzar; for, behold, Holofernes lies upon the ground, and his head is not on him!”


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But when the rulers of the army of Asshur heard the words, they tore their coats, and their soul was troubled exceedingly. There was a cry and an exceedingly great noise in the midst of the camp.


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Trembling and fear fell upon them, and no man dared stay any more in the sight of his neighbour, but rushing out with one accord, they fled into every way of the plain and of the hill country.


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Those who had encamped in the hill country round about Bethulia fled away. And then the children of Israel, every one who was a warrior amongst them, rushed out upon them.


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Ozias sent to Betomasthaim, Bebai, Chobai, and Chola, and to every coast of Israel, to tell about the things that had been accomplished, and that all should rush upon their enemies to destroy them.


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But wnen the children of Israel heard, they all fell upon them with one accord, and struck them to Chobai. Yes, and in like manner also they of Jerusalem and of all the hill country came (for men had told them about what happened in their enemies’ camp), and those who were in Gilead and in Galilee fell upon their flank with a great slaughter, until they were past Damascus and its borders.


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The rest of the people who lived at Bethulia fell upon the camp of Asshur, and plundered them, and were enriched exceedingly.


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The children of Israel returned from the slaughter, and got possession of that which remained. The villages and the cities that were in the hill country and in the plain country, took many spoils; for there was an exceedingly great supply.


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Joakim the high priest, and the elders of the children of Israel who lived in Jerusalem, came to see the good things which the Lord had showed to Israel, and to see Judith, and to salute her.


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When they came to her, they all blessed her with one accord, and said to her, “You are the exaltation of Jerusalem! You are the great glory of Israel! You are the great rejoicing of our race!


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You have done all these things by your hand. You have done with Israel the things that are good, and God is pleased with it. Blessed be you with the Almighty Lord forever.”
And all the people said, “Amen!”


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And the people plundered the camp for the space of thirty days: and they gave Holofernes’ tent to Judith, along with all his silver cups, his beds, his bowls, and all his furniture. She took them, and placed them on her mule, and prepared her wagons, and heaped them on it.


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And all the women of Israel ran together to see her; and they blessed her, and made a dance amongst them for her. She took branches in her hand, and distributed them to the women who were with her.


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Then they made themselves garlands of olive, she and those who were with her, and she went before all the people in the dance, leading all the women. All the men of Israel followed in their armour with garlands, and with songs in their mouths.


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And Judith began to sing this song of thanksgiving in all Israel, and all the people sang with loud voices this song of praise.


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Judith said,
“Begin a song to my God with timbrels.
Sing to my Lord with cymbals.
Make melody to him psalm and praise.
Exalt him, and call upon his name.


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For the Lord is the God that crushes battles.
For in his armies in the midst of the people,
he delivered me out of the hand of those who persecuted me.


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Asshur came out of the mountains from the north.
He came with ten thousands of his army.
Its multitude stopped the torrents.
Their horsemen covered the hills.


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He said that he would burn up my borders,
kill my young men with the sword,
throw my nursing children to the ground,
give my infants up as prey,
and make my virgins a plunder.


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For their mighty one didn’t fall by young men,
neither did sons of the Titans strike him.
Tall giants didn’t attack him,
but Judith the daughter of Merari made him weak with the beauty of her countenance.


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“For she put off the apparel of her widowhood
for the exaltation of those who were distressed in Israel.
She anointed her face with ointment,
bound her hair in a tiara,
and took a linen garment to deceive him.


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Her sandal ravished his eye.
Her beauty took his soul prisoner.
The scimitar passed through his neck.


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“Then my lowly ones shouted aloud.
My weak ones were terrified and trembled for fear.
They lifted up their voice, and they fled.


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The sons of ladies pierced them through,
and wounded them as fugitives’ children.
They perished by the battle of my Lord.


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“I will sing to my God a new song:
O Lord, you are great and glorious,
marvellous in strength, invincible.


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Let all your creation serve you;
for you spoke, and they were made.
You sent out your spirit, and it built them.
There is no one who can resist your voice.


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For the mountains will be moved from their foundations with the waters,
and the rocks will melt as wax at your presence:
But you are yet merciful to those who fear you.


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For all sacrifice is little for a sweet savour,
And all the fat is very little for a whole burnt offering to you;
But he who fears the Lord is great continually.


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“Woe to the nations who rise up against my race!
The Lord Almighty will take vengeance on them in the day of judgement,
to put fire and worms in their flesh;
and they will weep and feel their pain forever.”


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Now when they came to Jerusalem, they worshipped God. When the people were purified, they offered their whole burnt offerings, their free will offerings, and their gifts.


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Judith dedicated all Holofernes’ stuff, which the people had given her, and gave the canopy, which she had taken for herself out of his bedchamber, for a gift to the Lord.


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And the people continued feasting in Jerusalem before the sanctuary for three months, and Judith remained with them.


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But after these days, everyone departed to his own inheritance. Judith went away to Bethulia, and remained in her own possession, and was honourable in her time in all the land.


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Many desired her, and no man knew her all the days of her life, from the day that Manasses her husband died and was gathered to his people.


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She increased in greatness exceedingly; and she grew old in her husband’s house, to one hundred and five years, and let her maid go free. Then she died in Bethulia. They buried her in the cave of her husband Manasses.


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The house of Israel mourned for her seven days. She distributed her goods before she died to all those who were nearest of kin to Manasses her husband, and to those who were nearest of her own kindred.


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There was no one that made the children of Israel afraid any more in the days of Judith, nor a long time after her death.


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[In the second year of the reign of Ahasuerus the great king, on the first day of Nisan, Mordecai the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Jew dwelling in the city Susa, a great man, serving in the king’s palace, saw a vision. Now he was of the captivity which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried captive from Jerusalem, with Jeconiah the king of Judea. This was his dream: Behold, voices and a noise, thunders and earthquake, tumult upon the earth. And, behold, two great serpents came out, both ready for conflict. A great voice came from them. Every nation was prepared for battle by their voice, even to fight against the nation of the just. Behold, a day of darkness and blackness, suffering and anguish, affection and tumult upon the earth. And all the righteous nation was troubled, fearing their own afflictions. They prepared to die, and cried to God. Something like a great river from a little spring with much water, came from their cry. Light and the sun arose, and the lowly were exalted, and devoured the honourable.
Mordecai, who had seen this vision and what God desired to do, having arisen, kept it in his heart, and desired by all means to interpret it, even until night.
Mordecai rested quietly in the palace with Gabatha and Tharrha the king’s two chamberlains, eunuchs who guarded the palace. He heard their conversation and searched out their plans. He learnt that they were preparing to lay hands on king Ahasuerus; and he informed the king concerning them. The king examined the two chamberlains. They confessed, and were led away and executed. The king wrote these things for a record. Mordecai also wrote concerning these matters. The king commanded Mordecai to serve in the palace, and gave gifts for this service. But Haman the son of Hammedatha the Bougean was honoured in the sight of the king, and he endeavored to harm Mordecai and his people, because of the king’s two chamberlains.]  And it came to pass after these things  in the days of Ahasuerus, —(this Ahasuerus ruled over one hundred and twenty-seven provinces from India)—


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In the third year of his reign, he made a feast for his friends, and the other nations, and for the nobles of the Persians and Medes, and the chief of the local governors.


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After this, after he had shown them the wealth of his kingdom and the abundant glory of his wealth during one hundred and eighty days,


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when the days of the wedding feast were completed, the king made a banquet for the people of the nations who were present in the city for six days, in the court of the king’s house,


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which was adorned with fine linen and flax on cords of fine linen and purple, fastened to golden and silver studs, on pillars of white marble and stone. There were golden and silver couches on a pavement of emerald stone, and of pearl, and of white marble, with transparent coverings variously flowered, having roses worked around it.


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There were gold and silver cups, and a small cup of carbuncle set out of the value of thirty thousand talents, with abundant and sweet wine, which the king himself drank.


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This banquet was not according to the appointed law; but as the king desired to have it. He charged the stewards to perform his will and that of the company.


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Now on the seventh day, the king, being merry, told Haman, Bazan, Tharrha, Baraze, Zatholtha, Abataza, and Tharaba, the seven chamberlains, servants of king Ahasuerus,


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to bring in the queen to him, to  enthrone her, and crown her with the diadem, and to show her to the princes, and her beauty to the nations: for she was beautiful.


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But queen Vashti didn’t listen to him to come with the chamberlains; so the king was grieved and angered.


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And he said to his friends, “This is what Vashti said. Therefore pronounce your legal judgement on this case.”


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So Arkesaeus, Sarsathaeus, and Malisear, the princes of the Persians and Medes, who were near the king, who sat chief in rank by the king, drew near to him,


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and reported to him according to the laws what it was proper to do to queen Vashti, because she had not done the things commanded by the king through the chamberlains.


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And Memucan said to the king and to the princes, “Queen Vashti has not wronged the king only, but also all the king’s rulers and princes:


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for he has told them the words of the queen, and how she  disobeyed the king. As she then refused to obey king Ahasuerus,


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so this day the other wives of the chiefs of the Persians and Medes, having heard what she said to the king, will dare in the same way to dishonour their husbands.


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If then it seems good to the king, let him make a royal decree, and let it be written according to the laws of the Medes and Persians, and let him not alter it: ‘Don’t allow the queen to come in to him any more. Let the king give her royalty to a woman better than she.’


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Let the law of the king which he will have made be widely proclaimed in his kingdom. Then all the women will give honour to their husbands, from the poor even to the rich.”


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and sent into all his kingdom through the several provinces, according to their language, so that men might be feared in their own houses.


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After this, the king’s anger was pacified, and he no more mentioned Vashti, bearing in mind what she had said, and how he had condemned her.


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Let the king appoint local governors in all the provinces of his kingdom, and let them select fair, chaste young ladies and bring them to the city Susa, into the women’s apartment. Let them be consigned to the king’s chamberlain, the keeper of the women. Then let things for purification and other needs be given to them.


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Let the woman who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti.”
This thing pleased the king; and he did so.


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Now there was a Jew in the city Susa, and his name was Mordecai, the son of Jairus, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, of the tribe of Benjamin.


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He had been brought as a prisoner from Jerusalem, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried into captivity.


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He had a foster child, daughter of Aminadab his father’s brother. Her name was Esther. When her parents died, he brought her up to womanhood as his own. This lady was beautiful.


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And because the king’s ordinance was published, many ladies were gathered to the city of Susa under the hand of Hegai; and Esther was brought to Hegai, the keeper of the women.


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The lady pleased him, and she found favour in his sight. He hurried to give her the things for purification, her portion, and the seven maidens appointed her out of the palace. He treated her and her maidens well in the women’s apartment.


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Now this was the time for a virgin to go into the king, when she should have fulfilled twelve months; for so are the days of purification fulfilled, six months while they are anointing themselves with oil of myrrh, and six months with spices and women’s purifications.


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And then the lady goes in to the king. The officer that he commands to do so will bring her to come in with him from the women’s apartment to the king’s chamber.


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She enters in the evening, and in the morning she departs to the second women’s apartment, where Hegai the king’s chamberlain is keeper of the women. She doesn’t go in to the king again, unless she is called by name.


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And when the time was fulfilled for Esther the daughter of Aminadab the brother of Mordecai’s father to go in to the king, she neglected nothing which the chamberlain, the women’s keeper, commanded; for Esther found grace in the sight of all who looked at her.


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So Esther went in to king Ahasuerus in the twelfth month, which is Adar, in the seventh year of his reign.


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The king loved Esther, and she found favour beyond all the other virgins. He put the queen’s crown on her.


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The king made a banquet for all his friends and great men for seven days, and he highly celebrated the marriage of Esther; and he granted a remission of taxes to those who were under his dominion.


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Now Esther had not revealed her  kindred; for so Mordecai commanded her, to fear God, and perform his commandments, as when she was with him. Esther didn’t change her manner of life.


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Two chamberlains of the king, the chiefs of the body-guard, were grieved, because Mordecai was promoted; and they sought to kill king Ahasuerus.


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And the matter was discovered by Mordecai, and he made it known to Esther, and she declared to the king the matter of the conspiracy.


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And the king examined the two chamberlains, and hanged them. Then the king gave orders to make a note for a memorial in the royal  records of the good offices of Mordecai, as a commendation.


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After this, king Ahasuerus highly honoured Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Bugaean. He exalted him and set his seat above all his friends.


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All in the palace bowed down to him, for so the king had given orders to do; but Mordecai didn’t bow down to him.


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And they in the king’s palace said to Mordecai, “Mordecai, why do you transgress the commands of the king?”


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They questioned him daily, but he didn’t listen to them; so they reported to Haman that Mordecai resisted the commands of the king; and Mordecai had shown to them that he was a Jew.


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In the twelfth year of the reign of Ahasuerusin the twelfth year of the reign of Ahasuerus, he made a decision by casting lots by day and month, to kill the race of Mordecai in one day. The lot fell on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar.


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So he spoke to king Ahasuerus, saying, “There is a nation scattered amongst the nations in all your kingdom, and their laws differ from all the other nations. They disobey the king’s laws. It is not expedient for the king to tolerate them.


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If it seem good to the king, let him make a decree to destroy them, and I will remit into the king’s treasury ten thousand talents of silver.”


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So the king took off his ring, and gave it into the hands of Haman, to seal the decrees against the Jews.


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So the king’s recorders were called in the first month, on the thirteenth day, and they wrote as Haman commanded to the captains and governors in every province, from India even to Ethiopia, to one hundred and twenty-seven provinces; and to the rulers of the nations according to their languages, in the name of king Ahasuerus.


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The message was sent by couriers throughout the kingdom of Ahasuerus, to utterly destroy the race of the Jews on the first day of the twelfth month, which is Adar, and to plunder their goods. [The following is the copy of the letter. “From the great king Ahasuerus to the rulers and the governors under them of one hundred and twenty-seven provinces, from India even to Ethiopia, who hold authority under him:
“Ruling over many nations and having obtained dominion over the whole world, I was determined (not elated by the confidence of power, but ever conducting myself with great moderation and gentleness) to make the lives of my subjects continually tranquil, desiring both to maintain the kingdom quiet and orderly to its utmost limits, and to restore the peace desired by all men. When I had asked my counsellors how this should be brought to pass, Haman, who excels in soundness of judgement amongst us, and has been manifestly well inclined without wavering and with unshaken fidelity, and had obtained the second post in the kingdom, informed us that a certain ill-disposed people is mixed up with all the tribes throughout the world, opposed in their law to every other nation, and continually neglecting the commands of the king, so that the united government blamelessly administered by us is not quietly established. Having then conceived that this nation is continually set in opposition to every man, introducing as a change a foreign code of laws, and injuriously plotting to accomplish the worst of evils against our interests, and against the happy establishment of the monarchy; we instruct you in the letter written by Haman, who is set over the public affairs and is our second governor, to destroy them all utterly with their wives and children by the swords of the enemies, without pitying or sparing any, on the fourteenth day of the twelfth month Adar, of the present year; that the people aforetime and now ill-disposed to us having been violently consigned to death in one day, may hereafter secure to us continually a well constituted and quiet state of affairs.”]


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Copies of the letters were published in every province; and an order was given to all the nations to be ready for that day.


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This business was hastened also in Susa. The king and Haman began to drink, but the city was troubled.


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But Mordecai, having perceived what was done, tore his garments, put on sackcloth, and sprinkled dust upon himself. Having rushed forth through the open street of the city, he cried with a loud voice, “A nation that has done no wrong is going to be destroyed!”


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He came to the king’s gate, and stood; for it was not lawful for him to enter into the palace wearing sackcloth and ashes.


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And in every province where the letters were published, there was crying, lamentation, and great mourning on the part of the Jews. They wore sackcloth and ashes.


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The queen’s maids and chamberlains went in and told her; and when she had heard what was done, she was disturbed. She sent to clothe Mordecai, and take away his sackcloth; but he refused.


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So Esther called for her chamberlain Hathach, who waited upon her; and she sent to learn the truth from Mordecai.


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Mordecai showed him what was done, and the promise which Haman had made the king of ten thousand talents to be paid into the treasury, that he might destroy the Jews.


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And he gave him the copy of what was published in Susa concerning their destruction to show to Esther; and told him to charge her to go in and entreat the king, and to beg him for the people. “Remember, he said, the days of your humble condition, how you were nursed by my hand; because Haman who holds the next place to the king has spoken against us for death. Call upon the Lord, and speak to the king concerning us, to deliver us from death.”


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‘All the nations of the empire know than any man or woman who goes in to the king into the inner court without being called, that person can’t live; except to whomever the king stretches out his golden sceptre, he shall live. I haven’t been called to go into the king for thirty days.’”


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Then Mordecai said to Hathach, “Go, and say to her, ‘Esther, don’t say to yourself that you alone will escape in the kingdom, more than all the other Jews.


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For if you refuse to listen on this occasion, help and protection will come to the Jews from another place; but you and your father’s house will perish. Who knows if you have been made queen for this occasion?’”


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“Go and assemble the Jews that are in Susa, and all of you fast for me, and don’t eat or drink for three days, night and day. My maidens and I will also fast. Then I will go in to the king contrary to the law, even if I must die.”


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He said, “Lord  God, you are king ruling over all, for all things are in your power, and there is no one who can oppose you in your purpose to save Israel;


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You know all things. You know, Lord, that it is not in insolence, nor arrogance, nor love of glory, that I have done this, to refuse to bow down to the arrogant Haman.


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But I have done this that I might not set the glory of man above the glory of God. I will not worship anyone except you, my Lord, and I will not do these things in arrogance.


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And now, O Lord God, the King, the God of Abraham, spare your people, for our enemies are planning our destruction, and they have desired to destroy your ancient inheritance.


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Listen to my prayer. Have mercy on your inheritance and turn our mourning into gladness, that we may live and sing praise to your name, O Lord. Don’t utterly destroy the mouth of those who praise you, O Lord.”


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Having taken off her glorious apparel, she put on garments of distress and mourning. Instead of grand perfumes she filled her head with ashes and dung. She greatly brought down her body, and she filled every place of her glad adorning with the her tangled hair.


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She implored the Lord God of Israel, and said, “O my Lord, you alone are our king. Help me. I am destitute, and have no helper but you,


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I have heard from my birth, in the tribe of my kindred that you, Lord, took Israel out of all the nations, and our fathers out of all their kindred for a perpetual inheritance, and have done for them all that you have said.


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But now they have not been content with the bitterness of our slavery, but have laid their hands on the hands of their idols


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to abolish the decree of your mouth, and utterly to destroy your inheritance, and to stop the mouth of those who praise you, and to extinguish the glory of your house and your alter,


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and to open the mouth of the Gentiles tospeak the  praises of vanities, and that a mortal king should be admired forever.


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O Lord, don’t resign your sceptre to them that are not, and don’t let them laugh at our fall, but turn their counsel against themselves, and make an example of him who has  begun to injure us.


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Remember us, O Lord, manifest yourself in the time of our affliction. Encourage me, O King of gods, and ruler of all dominion!


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Put harmonious speech into my mouth before the lion, and turn his heart to hate him who fights against us, to the utter destruction of him who agrees with him.


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You know all things, and know that I hate the glory of transgressors, and that I abhor the couch of the uncircumcised, and of every stranger.


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You know my necessity, for I abhor the symbol of my proud station, which is upon my head in the days of my  splendour. I abhor it as a menstruous cloth, and I don’t wear it in the days of my tranquillity.


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Your handmaid has not eaten at Haman’s table Haman, and I have not honoured the banquet of the king, neither have I drunk wine of libations.


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Neither has your handmaid rejoiced since the day of my promotion until now, except in you, O Lord God of Abraham.


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O god, who has power over all, listen to the voice of the desperate, and deliver us from the hand of those who devise mischief. Deliver me from my fear.]


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It came to pass on the third day, when she had ceased praying, that she took off her servant’s dress, and put on her glorious apparel. Being splendidly dressed and having called upon God the Overseer and Preserver of all things, she took her two maids, and she leaned upon one, as a delicate female, and the other followed bearing her train. She was blooming in the perfection of her beauty. Her face was cheerful and looked lovely, but her heart was filled with fear. Having passed through all the doors, she stood before the king. He was sitting on his royal throne. He had put on all his glorious apparel, covered all over with gold and precious stones, and was very terrifying. And having raised his face resplendent with glory, he looked with intense anger. The queen fell, and changed her colour as she fainted. She bowed herself upon the head of the maid who went before her. But God changed the spirit of the king to gentleness, and in intense feeling, he sprang from off his throne, and took her into his arms, until she recovered. He comforted her with peaceful words, and said to her, “What is the matter, Esther? I am your relative. Cheer up! You shall not die, for our command is openly declared to you: ‘Draw near.’”


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And having raised the golden sceptre, he laid it upon her neck, and embraced her. He said, “Speak to me.”
So she said to him, “I saw you, my lord, as an angel of God, and my heart was troubled for fear of your glory; for you, my lord, are to be wondered at, and your face is full of grace.” While she was speaking, she fainted and fell.
Then the king was troubled, and all his servants comforted her.


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The king said, “What do you desire, Esther? What is your request? Ask even to the half of my kingdom, and it shall be yours.”


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Esther said, “Today is a special day. So if it seems good to the king, let both him and Haman come to the feast which I will prepare this day.”


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The king said, “Hurry and bring Haman here, that we may do as Esther said.” So they both come to the feast about which Esther had spoken.


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At the banquet, the king said to Esther, “What is your request, queen Esther? You shall have all that you require.”


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if I have found favour in the king’s sight, let the king and Haman come again tomorrow to the feast which I shall prepare for them, and tomorrow I will do the same.”


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So Haman went out from the king very glad and merry; but when Haman saw Mordecai the Jew in the court, he was greatly enraged.


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He showed them his wealth and the glory with which the king had invested him, and how he had promoted him to be chief ruler in the kingdom.


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Haman said, “The queen has called no one to the feast with the king but me, and I am invited tomorrow.


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Then Zeresh his wife and his friends said to him, “Let a fifty cubit tall  gallows be made for you. In the morning you speak to the king, and let Mordecai be hanged on the gallows; but you go in to the feast with the king, and be merry.”
The saying pleased Haman, and the gallows was prepared.


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The Lord removed sleep from the king that night; so he told his servant to bring in the  books, the registers of daily events, to read to him.


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And he found the  records written concerning Mordecai, how he had told the king about the king’s two chamberlains, when they were keeping guard, and sought to lay hands on Ahasuerus.


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The king said, “What honour or favour have we done for Mordecai?”
The king’s servants said, “You haven’t done anything for him.”


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And while the king was enquiring about the kindness of Mordecai, behold, Haman was in the court. The king said, “Who is in the court? Now Haman had come in to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on the gallows which he had prepared.


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The king said to Haman, “What should I do for the man whom I wish to honour?”
Haman said within himself, “Whom would the king honour but myself?”


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let the king’s servants bring the robe of fine linen which the king puts on, and the horse on which the king rides,


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and let him give it to one of the king’s noble friends, and let him dress the man whom the king loves. Let him mount him on the horse, and proclaim through the  streets of the city, saying, “This is what will be done for every man whom the king honours!”


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Then the king said to Haman, “You have spoken well. Do so for Mordecai the Jew, who waits in the palace, and let not a word of what you have spoken be neglected!”


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So Haman took the robe and the horse, dressed Mordecai, mounted him on the horse, and went through the streets of the city, and proclaimed, saying, “This is what will be done for every man whom the king wishes to honour.”


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Haman related the events that had happened him to Zeresh his wife, and to his friends. His friends and his wife said to him, “If Mordecai is of the race of the Jews, and you have begun to be humbled before him, you will assuredly fall, and you will not be able to withstand him, for the living God is with him.”


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While they were still speaking, the chamberlains arrived, to rush Haman to the banquet which Esther had prepared.


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The king said to Esther at the banquet on the second day, “What is it, queen Esther? What is your request? What is your petition? It shall be done for you, up to half of my kingdom.”


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She answered and said, “If I have found favour in the sight of the king, let my life be granted as my petition, and my people as my request.


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For both I and my people are sold for destruction, pillage, and genocide. If both we and our children were sold for male and female slaves, I would not have bothered you, for this  isn’t worthy of the king’s palace.”


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Esther said, “The enemy is Haman, this wicked man!”
Then Haman was troubled before the king and the queen.


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The king rose up from the banquet to go into the garden. Haman began to beg the queen for mercy; for he saw that he was in trouble.


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The king returned from the garden; and Haman had fallen upon the bed, begging the queen for mercy. The king said, “Will you even assault my wife in my house?”
And when Haman heard it, he changed countenance.


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And Bugathan, one of the chamberlains, said to the king, “Behold, Haman has also prepared a gallows for Mordecai, who spoke concerning the king, and a fifty cubit high gallows has been set up on Haman’s property.”
The king said, “Let him be  hanged on it!”


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So Haman was hanged on the gallows that had been prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath was appeased.


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On that day, king Ahasuerus gave to Esther all that belonged to Haman the slanderer. The king called Mordecai; for Esther had shown that he was related to her.


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The king took the ring which he had taken away from Haman and gave it to Mordecai. Esther appointed Mordecai over all that had been Haman’s.


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She spoke yet again to the king, and fell at his feet, and implored him to undo Haman’s mischief and all that he had done against the Jews.


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Esther said, “If it seems good to you, and I have found favour in your sight, let an order be sent that the letters sent by Haman may be reversed, that were written for the destruction of the Jews who are in your kingdom.


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For how could I see the affliction of my people, and how could I survive the destruction of my  kindred?”


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Then the king said to Esther, “If I have given and freely granted you all that was Haman’s, and hanged him on a gallows, because he laid his hands upon the Jews, what more do you seek?


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Write in my name whatever seems good to you, and seal it with my ring; for whatever is written at the command of the king, and sealed with my ring, cannot be countermanded.


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So the scribes were called in the first month, which is Nisan, on the twenty-third day of the same year; and orders were written to the Jews, whatever the king had commanded to the  local governors and chiefs of the local governors, from India even to Ethiopia, one hundred and twenty-seven local governors, according to the several provinces, in their own languages.


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They were written by order of the king, sealed with his ring, and the letters were sent by the couriers.


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In them, he charged them to use their own laws in every city, to help each other, and to treat their adversaries and those who attacked them as they pleased,


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on one day in all the kingdom of Ahasuerus, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is Adar.


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Let the copies be posted in conspicuous places throughout the kingdom. Let all the Jews be ready against this day, to fight against their enemies. The following is a copy of the letter containing orders.
[The great king Ahasuerus sends greetings to the rulers of provinces in one hundred and twenty-seven local governance regions, from India to Ethiopia, even to those who are faithful to our interests. Many who have been frequently honoured by the most abundant kindness of their  benefactors have conceived ambitious designs, and not only endeavour to hurt our subjects, but moreover, not being able to bear prosperity, they also endeavour to plot against their own benefactors. They not only would utterly abolish gratitude from amongst men, but also, elated by the boastings of men who are strangers to all that is good, they supposed that they would escape the sin-hating vengeance of the ever-seeing God. And oftentimes evil exhortation has made partakers of the guilt of shedding innocent blood, and has involved in irremediable calamities, many of those who had been appointed to offices of authority, who had been entrusted with the management of their friends’ affairs; while men, by the false sophistry of an evil disposition, have deceived the simple candour of the ruling powers. And it is possible to see this, not so much from more ancient traditionary accounts, as it is immediately in your power to see it by examining what things have been wickedly  perpetrated by the baseness of men unworthily holding power. It is right to take heed with regard to the future, that we may maintain the government in undisturbed peace for all men, adopting needful changes, and ever judging those cases which come under our notice with truly equitable decisions. For whereas Haman, a Macedonian, the son of Hammedatha, in reality an alien from the blood of the Persians, and differing widely from our mild course of government, having been hospitable entertained by us, obtained so large a share of our universal kindness as to be called our father, and to continue the person next to the royal throne, reverenced of all; he however,  overcome by pride, endeavored to deprive us of our dominion, and our life; having by various and subtle artifices demanded for destruction both Mordecai our deliverer and perpetual benefactor, and Esther the blameless consort of our kingdom, along with their whole nation. For by these methods he thought, having surprised us in a defenceless state, to transfer the dominion of the Persians to the Macedonians. But we find that the Jews, who have been consigned to destruction by the  most abominable of men, are not malefactors, but living according to the justest laws, and being the sons of the living God, the most high and  mighty, who maintains the kingdom, to us as well as to our forefathers, in the most excellent order. You will therefore do well in refusing to obey the letter sent by Haman the son of Hammedatha, because he who has done these things has been hanged with his whole family at the gates of Susa, Almighty God having swiftly returned to him a worthy punishment. We enjoin you then, having openly published a copy of this letter in every place, to give the Jews permission to use their own lawful customs, and to strengthen them, that on the thirteenth of the twelfth month Adar, on the self-same day, they may defend themselves against those who attack them in a time of affliction. For in the place of the destruction of the chosen race, Almighty God has granted them this time of gladness. Therefore you also, amongst your notable feasts, must keep a distinct day with all festivity, that both now and hereafter it may be a day of deliverance to us and who are well disposed towards the Persians, but to those that plotted against us a memorial of destruction. And every city and province collectively, which shall not do accordingly, shall be consumed with vengeance by spear and fire. It shall be made not only inaccessible to men, but most hateful to wild beasts and birds forever.] Let the copies be posted in conspicuous places throughout the kingdom and let all the Jews be ready against this day, to fight against their enemies.


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So the horsemen went forth with haste to perform the king’s commands. The ordinance was also published in Susa.


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Mordecai went out robed in royal apparel, wearing a golden crown and a diadem of fine purple linen. The people in Susa saw it and rejoiced.


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in every city and province where the ordinance was published. Wherever the proclamation took place, the Jews had joy and gladness, feasting and mirth. Many of the Gentiles were circumcised and became Jews, for fear of the Jews.


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Now in the twelfth month, on the thirteenth day of the month which is Adar, the letters written by the king arrived.


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For the chiefs of the local governors, and the princes and the royal scribes, honoured the Jews; for the fear of Mordecai was upon them.


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the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha the Bugaean, the enemy of the Jews, and they plundered their property on the same day.


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Then the king said to Esther, “The Jews have slain five hundred men in the city Susa. What do you think they have done in the rest of the country? What more do you ask, that it may be done for you?”


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Esther said to the king, “Let it be granted to the Jews to do the same to them tomorrow. Also hang the bodies of the ten sons of Haman.”


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He permitted it to be done; and he gave up to the Jews of the city the bodies of the sons of Haman to hang.


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The Jews assembled in Susa on the fourteenth day of Adar and killed three hundred men, but plundered no property.


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The rest of the Jews who were in the kingdom assembled, and helped one another, and obtained rest from their enemies; for they destroyed fifteen thousand of them on the thirteenth day of Adar, but took no spoil.


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They rested on the fourteenth of the same month, and kept it as a day of rest with joy and gladness.


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The Jews in the city Susa assembled also on the fourteenth day and rested; and they also observed the fifteenth with joy and gladness.


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On this account then it is that the Jews dispersed in every foreign land keep the fourteenth of Adar as a  holy day with joy, each sending gifts of food to his neighbour.


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Mordecai wrote these things in a book, and sent them to the Jews, as many as were in the kingdom of Ahasuerus, both those who were near and those who were far away,


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for on these days the Jews obtained rest from their enemies; and in that month, which was Adar, in which a change was made for them, from mourning to joy, and from sorrow to a good day, to spend the whole of it in good days of  feasting and gladness, sending portions to their friends and to the poor.


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showing how Haman the son of Hammedatha the Macedonian fought against them, how he made a decree and cast  lots to destroy them utterly;


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also how he went in to the king, telling him to hang Mordecai; but all the calamities he tried to bring upon the Jews came upon himself, and he was hanged, along with his children.


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Therefore these days were called Purim, because of the lots (for in their language they are called Purim) because of the words of this letter, and because of all they suffered on this account, and all that happened to them.


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Mordecai established it, and the Jews took upon themselves, and upon their seed, and upon those that were joined to them to observe it, neither would they on any account behave differently; but these days were to be a memorial kept in every generation, city, family, and province.


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Queen Esther the daughter of Aminadab, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote all that they had done, and the confirmation of the letter of Purim.


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Mordecai and Esther the queen established this decision on their own, pledging their own health to their plan.


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As for his strength and valour, and the wealth and glory of his kingdom, behold, they are written in the book of the Persians and Medes for a memorial.


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Mordecai  was viceroy to king Ahasuerus, and was a great man in the kingdom, honoured by the Jews, and lived his life loved by all his nation.


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For I remember the dream which I had concerning these matters; for not one detail of them has failed.


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There was the little spring which became a river, and there was light, and the sun and much water. The river is Esther, whom the king married, and made queen.


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But as for my nation, this is Israel, even those who cried to God and were delivered; for the Lord delivered his people. The Lord rescued us out of all these calamities; and God worked such signs and great wonders as have not been done amongst the nations.


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And these two lots came for an appointed season, and for a day of judgement, before God, and for all the nations.


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They shall observe these days in the month Adar, on the fourteenth and on the fifteenth day of the month, with an assembly, joy, and gladness before God, throughout the generations forever amongst his people Israel.


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In the fourth year of the reign of Ptolemeus and Cleopatra, Dositheus, who said he was a priest and Levite, and Ptolemeus his son, brought this letter of Purim, which they said was the same, and that Lysimachus the son of Ptolemeus, who was in Jerusalem, had interpreted.]


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Love righteousness, all you who are judges of the earth.
Think of the Lord  with a good mind.
Seek him in singleness of heart,


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For crooked thoughts separate from God.
His Power convicts when it is tested,
and exposes the foolish.


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Because wisdom will not enter into a soul that devises evil,
nor dwell in a body that is enslaved by sin.


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For a holy spirit of discipline will flee deceit,
and will depart from thoughts that are without understanding,
and will be ashamed when unrighteousness has come in.


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For  wisdom is a spirit who loves man,
and she will not hold a  blasphemer guiltless for his lips;
because God is witness of his inmost self,
and is a true overseer of his heart,
and a hearer of his tongue:


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Because the spirit of the Lord has filled  the world,
and that which holds all things together knows what is said.


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Therefore no one who utters unrighteous things will be unseen;
neither will Justice, when it convicts, pass him by.


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For in his counsels the ungodly will be searched out,
and the sound of his words will come to the Lord to bring his lawless deeds to conviction;


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Beware then of unprofitable murmuring,
and keep your tongue from slander;
because no secret utterance will go on its way void,
and a lying mouth destroys a soul.


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Don’t court death in the error of your life;
and don’t draw destruction upon yourselves by the works of your hands,


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For he created all things that they might have being.
The generative powers of the world are wholesome,
and there is no poison of destruction in them,
nor has Hades  royal dominion upon earth;


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but ungodly men by their hands and their words summon death;
deeming him a friend they  pined away.
They made a covenant with him,
because they are worthy to belong with him.


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For they said  within themselves, with unsound reasoning,
“Our life is short and sorrowful.
There is no healing when a man comes to his end,
and no one was ever known that  was released from Hades.


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Because we were born by mere chance,
and hereafter we will be as though we had never been;
because the breath in our nostrils is smoke,
and reason is a spark kindled by the beating of our heart;


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which being extinguished, the body will be turned into ashes,
and the spirit will be dispersed as thin air.


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Our name will be forgotten in time.
No one will remember our works.
Our life will pass away as the traces of a cloud,
and will be scattered as is a mist,
when it is chased by the rays of the sun,
and  overcome by its heat.


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For our allotted time is the passing of a shadow,
and  our end doesn’t retreat;
because it is securely sealed, and no one  turns it back.


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“Come therefore and let’s enjoy the good things  thatnow exist.
Let’s use the creation earnestly as in our youth.


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Let none of us go without his share in our proud revelry.
Let’s leave tokens of mirth everywhere,
because this is our portion, and this is our lot.


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Let’s oppress the righteous poor.
Let’s not spare the widow,
nor reverence the grey hair of the old man.


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But let’s lie in wait for the righteous man,
because he annoys us,
is contrary to our works,
reproaches us with sins against the law,
and charges us with sins against our training.


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He is grievous to us even to look at,
because his life is unlike other men’s,
and his paths are strange.


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We were regarded by him as worthless metal,
and he abstains from our ways as from uncleanness.
He calls the latter end of the righteous happy.
He boasts that God is his father.


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For if the righteous man is God’s son, he will uphold him,
and he will deliver him out of the hand of his adversaries.


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Let’s test him with outrage and torture,
that we may find out how gentle he is,
and test his patience.


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and they didn’t know the mysteries of God,
neither did they hope for wages of holiness,
nor did they discern that there is a prize for blameless souls.


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but death entered into the world by the envy of the devil,
and those who belong to him experience it.


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Having borne a little chastening, they will receive great good;
because God tested them, and found them worthy of himself.


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In the time of their visitation they will shine.
They will run back and forth like sparks amongst stubble.


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Those who trust him will understand truth.
The faithful will live with him in love,
because grace and mercy are with his chosen ones.


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But the ungodly will be punished even as they reasoned,
those who neglected righteousness and revolted from the Lord;


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for he who despises wisdom and discipline is miserable.
Their hope is void and their toils unprofitable.
Their works are useless.


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Their descendants are cursed,
because the barren woman who is undefiled is happy,
she who has not conceived in transgression.
She will have fruit in the visitation of souls.


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So is the eunuch which has done no lawless deed with his hands,
nor imagined wicked things against the Lord;
for a precious gift will be given to him for his faithfulness, a special favour,
and a delightful inheritance in the Lord’s sanctuary.


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For if they live long, they will not be esteemed,
and in the end, their old age will be without honour.


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It is better to be childless with virtue,
for immortality is in the memory of virtue,
because it is recognised both before God and before men.


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When it is present, people imitate it.
They long after it when it has departed.
Throughout all time it marches crowned in triumph,
victorious in the competition for the prizes that are undefiled.


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But the multiplying brood of the ungodly will be of no profit,
and their illegitimate offshoots won’t take deep root,
nor will they establish a sure hold.


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For even if they grow branches and flourish for a season,
standing unsure, they will be shaken by the wind.
They will be uprooted by the violence of winds.


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Their branches will be broken off before they come to maturity.
Their fruit will be useless,
never ripe to eat, and fit for nothing.


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For unlawfully conceived children are witnesses of wickedness
against parents when they are investigated.


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For honourable old age is not that which stands in length of time,
nor is its measure given by number of years:


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For the witchcraft of worthlessness obscures the things which are good,
and the whirl of desire perverts an innocent mind.


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But as for the peoples seeing and not understanding,
not considering this, that grace and mercy are with his chosen,
and that he visits his holy ones—


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but a righteous man who is dead will condemn the ungodly who are living,
and youth that is quickly perfected will condemn the many years of an unrighteous man’s old age.


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For the ungodly will see a wise man’s end,
and won’t understand what the Lord planned for him,
and why he safely kept him.


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They will see, and they will despise;
but the Lord will laugh them to scorn.
After this, they will become a dishonoured carcass
and a reproach amongst the dead forever;


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because he will dash them speechless to the ground,
and will shake them from the foundations.
They will lie utterly waste.
They will be in anguish
and their memory will perish.


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They will come with coward fear when their sins are counted.
Their lawless deeds will convict them to their face.


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Then the righteous man will stand in great boldness
before the face of those who afflicted him,
and those who make his labours of no account.


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When they see him, they will be troubled with terrible fear,
and will be amazed at the marvel of salvation.


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They will speak amongst themselves repenting,
and for distress of spirit they will groan,
“This was he whom we used to hold in derision,
as a parable of reproach.


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Truly we went astray from the way of truth.
The light of righteousness didn’t shine for us.
The sun didn’t rise for us.


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We  took our fill of the paths of lawlessness and destruction.
We travelled through trackless deserts,
but we didn’t know the Lord’s way.


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like a ship passing through the billowy water,
which, when it has gone by, there is no trace to be found,
no pathway of its keel in the billows.


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Or it is like when a bird flies through the air,
no evidence of its passage is found,
but the light wind, lashed with the stroke of its pinions,
and torn apart with the violent rush of the moving wings, is passed through.
Afterwards no sign of its coming remains.


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Or it is like when an arrow is shot at a mark,
the air disparted closes up again immediately,
so that men don’t know where it passed through.


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So we also, as soon as we were born, ceased to be;
and we had no sign of virtue to show,
but we were utterly consumed in our wickedness.”


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Because the hope of the ungodly man is like chaff carried by the wind,
and  as  foam vanishing before a tempest;
and is scattered like smoke by the wind,
and passes by as the remembrance of a guest that waits but a day.


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But the righteous live forever.
Their reward is in the Lord,
and the care for them with the Most High.


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Therefore they will receive the crown of royal dignity
and the diadem of beauty from the Lord’s hand;
because he will cover them with his right hand,
and he will shield them with his arm.


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He will take his jealousy as complete armour,
and will make the whole creation his weapons to punish his enemies:


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He will sharpen stern wrath for a sword.
The world will go with him to fight against his frenzied foes.


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Shafts of lightning will fly with true aim.
They will leap to the mark from the clouds, as from a well-drawn bow.


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Hailstones full of wrath will be hurled from an engine of war.
The water of the sea will be angered against them.
Rivers will sternly overwhelm them.


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A mighty blast will encounter them.
It will winnow them away like a tempest.
So lawlessness will make all the land desolate.
Their evil-doing will overturn the thrones of princes.


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Give ear, you rulers who have dominion over many people,
and make your boast  in multitudes of nations,


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because your dominion was given to you from the Lord,
and your sovereignty from the Most High.
He will search out your works,
and will enquire about your plans;


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because being officers of his kingdom, you didn’t judge rightly,
nor did you keep  law,
nor did you walk according to God’s counsel.


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He will come upon you awfully and swiftly,
because a stern judgement comes on those who are in high place.


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For the Sovereign Lord of all will not be impressed with anyone,
neither will he show deference to greatness;
because it is he who made both small and great,
and cares about them all;


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For those who have kept the things that are holy in holiness will be made holy.
Those who have been taught them will find what to say in defence.


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Wisdom is radiant and doesn’t fade away;
and is easily seen by those who love her,
and found by those who seek her.


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For to think upon her is perfection of understanding,
and he who watches for her will quickly be free from care;


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because she herself goes around, seeking those who are worthy of her,
and in their paths she appears to them graciously,
and in every purpose she meets them.


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If therefore you delight in thrones and sceptres, you princes of peoples,
honour wisdom, that you may reign forever.


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But what wisdom is, and how she came into being, I will declare.
I won’t hide mysteries from you;
but I will explore from her first beginning,
bring the knowledge of her into clear light,
and I will not pass by the truth.


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But a multitude of wise men is salvation to the world,
and an understanding king is stability for his people.


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I myself am also  mortal, like everyone else,
and am a descendant of one formed first and born of the earth.


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I moulded into flesh in the time of ten months in my mother’s womb,
being compacted in blood from the seed of man and pleasure that came with sleep.


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I also, when I was born, drew in the common air,
and fell upon the kindred earth,
uttering, like all, for my first voice, the same cry.


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Neither did I liken to her any priceless gem,
because all gold in her presence is a little sand,
and silver will be considered as clay before her.


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I loved her more than health and beauty,
and I chose to have her rather than light,
because her bright shining is never laid to sleep.


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And I rejoiced over them all because wisdom leads them;
although I didn’t know that she was their mother.


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For she is a treasure for men that doesn’t fail,
and those who use it obtain friendship with God,
commended by the gifts which they present through discipline.


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But may God grant that I may speak his judgement,
and to conceive thoughts worthy of what has been given me;
because he is one who guides even wisdom and who corrects the wise.


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For he himself gave me an unerring knowledge of the things that are,
to know the structure of the universe and the operation of the elements;


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the beginning, end, and middle of times;
the alternations of the solstices and the changes of seasons;


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the natures of living creatures and the raging of wild beasts;
The violence of  winds and the thoughts of men;
the diversities of plants and the virtues of roots.


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for wisdom, that is the architect of all things, taught me.
For there is in her a spirit that is quick to understand, holy,
unique, manifold, subtle, freely moving, clear in utterance, unpolluted,
distinct, unharmed, loving what is good, keen, unhindered,


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beneficent, loving towards man, steadfast, sure, free from care, all-powerful, all-surveying,
and penetrating through all spirits that are quick to understand, pure, most subtle:


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For wisdom is more mobile than any motion.
Yes, she pervades and penetrates all things by reason of her purity.


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For she is a breath of the power of God,
and a clear effluence of the glory of the Almighty.
Therefore nothing defiled can find entrance into her.


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For she is a reflection of everlasting light,
an unspotted mirror of the working of God,
and an image of his goodness.


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She, being one, has power to do all things.
Remaining in herself, she renews all things.
From generation to generation passing into holy souls,
she makes friends of God and prophets.


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For she is fairer than the sun,
and above all the constellations of the stars.
She is better than light.


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I loved her and sought her from my youth.
I sought to take her for my bride.
I became enamoured by her beauty.


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If a man loves righteousness,
the fruits of wisdom’s labour are virtues,
for she teaches soberness, understanding, righteousness, and courage.
There is nothing in life more profitable for people than these.


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And if anyone longs for wide experience,
she knows the things of old, and infers the things to come.
She understands subtleties of speeches and interpretations of dark sayings.
She foresees signs and wonders, and the issues of seasons and times.


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Therefore I determined to take her to live with me,
knowing that she is one who would give me good counsel,
and encourage me in cares and grief.


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Because of her, I will have glory amongst multitudes,
and honour in the sight of elders, though I am young.


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When I am silent, they will wait for me.
When I open my lips, they will heed what I say.
If I continue speaking, they will put their hands on their mouths.


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Because of her, I will have immortality,
and leave behind an eternal memory to those who come after me.


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Dreaded monarchs will fear me when they hear of me.
Amongst the people, I will show myself to be good, and courageous in war.


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When I come into my house, I will find rest with her.
For conversation with her has no bitterness,
and living with her has no pain, but gladness and joy.


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When I considered these things in myself,
and thought in my heart how immortality is in kinship to wisdom,


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and in her friendship is good delight,
and in the labours of her hands is wealth that doesn’t fail,
and understanding is in her companionship,
and great renown in having fellowship with her words,
I went about seeking how to take her to myself.


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But perceiving that I could not otherwise possess wisdom unless God gave her to me—
yes, and to know and understand by whom the grace is given—
I pleaded with the Lord and implored him, and with my whole heart I said,


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and by your wisdom you formed man,
that he should have dominion over the creatures that were made by you,


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because I am your servant and the son of your handmaid,
a weak and short-lived man,
with little power to understand judgement and laws.


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For even if a man is perfect amongst the sons of men,
if the wisdom that comes from you is not with him, he will count for nothing.


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You gave a command to build a sanctuary on your holy mountain,
and  an altar in the city where you pitch your tent,
a copy of the holy tent which you prepared from the beginning.


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Wisdom is with you and knows your works,
and was present when you were making the world,
and understands what is pleasing in your eyes,
and what is right according to your commandments.


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Send her from the holy heavens,
and ask her to come from the throne of your glory,
that being present with me she may work,
and I may learn what is pleases you well.


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For she knows all things and understands,
and she will guide me soberly in my actions.
She will guard me in her glory.


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So my works will be acceptible.
I will judge your people righteously,
and I will be worthy of my father’s  throne.


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For a corruptible body weighs down the soul.
The earthy frame lies heavy on a mind that is full of cares.


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We can hardly guess the things that are on earth,
and we find the things that are close at hand with labour;
but who has traced out the things that are in the heavens?


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Who gained knowledge of your counsel, unless you gave wisdom,
and sent your holy spirit from the highest?


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It was thus that the ways of those who are on earth were corrected,
and men were taught the things that are pleasing to you.
They were saved through wisdom.”


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Wisdom guarded to the end the first formed father of the world, that was created alone,
And delivered him out of his own transgression,


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But when an unrighteous man fell away from her in his anger,
He perished himself in the rage wherewith he killed his brother.


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And when for his cause the earth was drowning with a flood,
Wisdom again saved it,
Guiding the righteous man’s course by a poor piece of wood.


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Moreover, when nations consenting together in wickedness had been confounded,
Wisdom knew the righteous man, and preserved him blameless to God,
And kept him strong when his heart yearned towards his child.


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While the ungodly were perishing,  wisdom delivered a righteous man,
When he fled from the fire that descended out of heaven on  Pentapolis.


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To whose wickedness a smoking waste still witnesses,
And plants bearing fair fruit that comes not to ripeness;
Yes and a  disbelieving soul has a memorialthere, a pillar of saltstill standing.


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For having passed wisdom by,
Not only were they disabled from recognising the things which are good,
But they also left behind them  forhuman life a monument of their folly;
To the end that  where they  went astray they might fail even to be unseen:


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When a righteous man was a fugitive from a brother’s wrath,  wisdom guided him in straight paths;
She showed him God’s kingdom, and gave him knowledge of holy things;
She prospered him in his toils, and multiplied the fruits of his labour;


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She guarded him from enemies,
And from those that lay in wait she kept him safe,
And over his sore conflict she watched as judge,
That he might know that godliness is more powerful than  all.


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When a righteous man was sold,  wisdom forsook him not,
But  from sin she delivered him;
She went down with him into a dungeon,


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And in bonds she left him not,
Till she brought him the sceptre of a kingdom,
And authority over those that dealt tyrannously with him;
She showed them also to be false that had mockingly accused him,
And gave him eternal glory.


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She entered into the soul of a servant of the Lord,
And withstood terrible kings in wonders and signs.


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She rendered to holy men a reward of their toils;
She guided them along a marvellous way,
And became to them a covering in the day-time,
And a flame of stars through the night.


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Therefore the righteous plundered the ungodly;
And they sang praise to your holy name, O Lord,
And extolled with one accord your hand that fought for them:


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They travelled through a desert without inhabitant,
And in trackless regions they pitched their tents.


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They thirsted, and they called upon you,
And there was given them water out of  the  flinty rock,
And healing of their thirst out of the hard stone.


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For when they were tried, although chastened in mercy,
they learnt how the ungodly were tormented, being judged with wrath.


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For you tested these as a father admonishing them;
but you searched out those as a stern king condemning them.


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For when they heard that through their own punishments the others benefitted,
they recognised the Lord.


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For him who long before was thrown out and exposed they stopped mocking.
In the end of what happened, they marvelled,
having thirsted in another manner than the righteous.


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But in return for the senseless imaginings of their unrighteousness,
wherein they were led astray to worship irrational reptiles and wretched vermin,
you sent upon them a multitude of irrational creatures for vengeance;


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For your all-powerful hand
that created the world out of formless matter
didn’t lack means to send upon them a multitude of bears, fierce lions,


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or newly-created and unknown wild beasts, full of rage,
either breathing out a blast of fiery breath,
or belching out smoke,
or flashing dreadful sparks from their eyes;


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which had power not only to consume them by their violence,
but to destroy them even by the terror of their sight.


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Yes and without these they might have fallen by a single breath,
being pursued by Justice, and scattered abroad by the breath of your power;
but you arranged all things by measure, number, and weight.


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Because the whole world before you is as a grain in a balance,
and as a drop of dew that comes down upon the earth in the morning.


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But you have mercy on all men, because you have power to do all things,
and you overlook the sins of men to the end that they may repent.


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For you love all things that are,
and abhor none of the things which you made;
For you never would have formed anything if you hated it.


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How would anything have endured unless you had willed it?
Or that which was not called by you, how would it have been preserved?


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Wherefore you convict little by little those who fall from the right way,
and, putting them in remembrance by the things wherein they sin, you admonish them,
that escaping from their wickedness they may believe in you, O Lord.


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allies in an impious fellowship,
and murderers of their own helpless babes,
it was your counsel to destroy by the hands of our fathers;


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that the land which in your sight is most precious of all
might receive a worthy colony of God’s servants.


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Nevertheless you even spared these as men,
and you sent hornets  as forerunners of your army,
to cause them to perish little by little;


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Not that you were unable to subdue the ungodly under the hand of the righteous in battle,
or by terrible beasts or by a stern word to make away with them at once;


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but judging them little by little you gave them a chance to repent,
not being ignorant that their nature by birth was evil,
their wickedness inborn,
and that their manner of thought would never be changed.


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For they were a cursed seed from the beginning.
It wasn’t through fear of any that you left them unpunished for their sins.


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For who will say, “What have you done?”
Or “Who will withstand your judgement?”
Who will accuse you for the perishing of nations which you caused?
Or who will come and stand before you as an avenger for unrighteous men?


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For there isn’t any God beside you that cares for all,
that you might show that you didn’t judge unrighteously.


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But being righteous, you rule all things righteously,
deeming it a thing alien from your power
to condemn one that does not deserve to be punished.


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For your strength is the beginning of righteousness,
and your sovereignty over all makes you to forbear all.


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For when men don’t believe that you are perfect in power, you show your strength,
and in dealing with those who think this, you confuse their boldness.


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But you, being sovereign over strength, judge in gentleness,
and with great forbearance do you govern us;
for the power is yours whenever you desire it.


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But you taught your people by such works as these,
how the righteous must be a lover of men.
You made your sons to have good hope,
because you give repentance when men have sinned.


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For if on those who were enemies of your servants  and due to death
you took vengeance with so great deliberation and indulgence,
giving them times and opportunities when they might escape from their wickedness;


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with how great carefulness you judged your sons,
to whose fathers you gave oaths and covenants of good promises!


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Therefore while you chasten us, you scourge our enemies ten thousand times more,
to the intent that we may ponder your goodness when we judge,
and when we are judged may look for mercy.


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Wherefore also the unrighteous that lived in folly of life,
you tormented through their own abominations.


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For truly they went astray very far in the ways of error,
Taking as gods those animals  which even amongst their enemies were held in dishonour,
deceived like foolish babes.


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But those who would not be admonished by a mocking correction as of children
will experience a judgement worthy of God.


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For through the sufferings they were indignant of,
being punished in these creatures which they supposed to be gods,
they saw and recognised as the true God him whom they refused to know.
Therefore also the result of condemnation came upon them.


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For truly all men who had no perception of God were vain by nature,
and didn’t gain power to know him who exists from the good things that are seen.
They didn’t recognise the architect from his works.


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But they thought that either fire, or wind, or swift air,
or circling stars, or raging water, or luminaries of heaven
were gods that rule the world.


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If it was through delight in their beauty that they took them to be gods,
let them know how much better their Sovereign Lord is than these,
for the first author of beauty created them.


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But if it was through astonishment at their power and influence,
then let them understand from them how much more powerful he who formed them is.


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For from the greatness of the beauty of created things,
mankind forms the corresponding image of their Maker.


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But yet for these men there is but small blame,
for they too perhaps go astray
while they are seeking God and desiring to find him.


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For they diligently search while living amongst his works,
and they trust their sight that the things that they look at are beautiful.


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For if they had power to know so much,
that they should be able to explore the world,
how is it that they didn’t find the Sovereign Lord sooner?


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But miserablewere they, and  in dead thingswere their hopes,
Who called them gods which are works of men’s hands,
gold and silver, skilfully made, and likenesses of animals,
or a useless stone, the work of an ancient hand.


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Yes and if some  woodcutter, having sawn down a  tree that is easily moved,
skilfully strips away all its bark,
and fashioning it in attractive form, makes a useful vessel to serve his life’s needs.


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Taking a discarded scrap which served no purpose,
a crooked piece of wood and full of knots,
carves it with the diligence of his idleness,
and shapes it by the skill of his  idleness.
He shapes it in the image of a man,


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or makes it like some paltry animal,
smearing it with something red, painting it red,
and smearing over every stain in it.


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He plans for it that it may not fall down,
knowing that it is unable to help itself
(for truly it is an image, and needs help).


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When he makes his prayer concerning goods and his marriage and children,
he is not ashamed to speak to that which has no life.


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Yes, for health, he calls upon that which is weak.
For life, he implores that which is dead.
For aid, he supplicates that which has no experience.
For a good journey, he asks that which can’t so much as move a step.


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And for profit in business and good success of his hands,
he asks ability from that which has hands with no ability.


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Again, one preparing to sail, and about to journey over raging waves,
calls upon a piece of wood more rotten than the vessel that carries him.


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Your providence, O Father, guides it along,
because even in the sea you gave a way,
and in the waves a sure path,


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It is your will that the works of your wisdom should be not idle.
Therefore men also entrust their lives to a little piece of wood,
and passing through the surge on a raft come safely to land.


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For  in the old time also, when proud giants were perishing,
the hope of the world, taking refuge on a raft,
your hand guided the seed of generations of the race of men.


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but the idol made with hands is accursed, itself and he that made it;
because his was the working, and the corruptible thing was called a god:


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Therefore also there will be a visitation amongst the idols of the nation,
because, though formed of things which God created, they were made an abomination,
stumbling blocks to the souls of men,
and a snare to the feet of the foolish.


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For the devising of idols was the beginning of fornication,
and the invention of them the corruption of life.


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For by the vaingloriousness of men they entered into the world,
and therefore was a speedy end is planned for them.


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For a father worn with untimely grief,
making an image of the child quickly taken away,
now honoured him as a god which was then a dead man,
and delivered to those that were under him mysteries and solemn rites.


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Afterward the ungodly custom, in process of time grown strong, was kept as a law,
and the engraved images received worship by the commandments of princes.


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And when men could not honour them in presence because they lived far off,
imagining the likeness from afar,
they made a visible image of the king whom they honoured,
that by their zeal they might flatter the absent as if present.


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But worship was raised to a yet higher pitch, even by those who didn’t know him,
urged forward by the ambition of the architect;


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for he, wishing perhaps to please one in authority,
used his art to force the likeness towards a greater beauty.


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So the multitude, allured by reason of the grace of his handiwork,
now consider an object of devotion him that a little before was honoured as a man.


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And this became an ambush,
because men, in bondage either to calamity or to tyranny,
invested stones and stocks with the incommunicable Name.


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Afterward it was not enough for them to go astray concerning the knowledge of God;
but also, while they live in a great war of ignorance that they call a multitude of evils peace.


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For either slaughtering children in solemn rites, or celebrating secret mysteries,
or holding frantic revels of strange ordinances,


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no longer do they guard either life or purity of marriage,
but one brings upon another either death by treachery, or anguish by adultery.


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And all things confusedly are filled with blood and murder, theft and deceit,
corruption, faithlessness, tumult, perjury,


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confusion about what is good, forgetfulness of favours,
ingratitude for benefits,
defiling of souls, confusion of sex,
disorder in marriage, adultery and wantonness.


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For their worshippers either make merry to madness, or prophesy lies,
or live unrighteously, or lightly commit perjury.


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For putting their trust in lifeless idols,
when they have sworn a wicked oath, they expect not to suffer harm.


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But for both, the just doom will pursue them,
because they had evil thoughts of God by giving heed to idols,
and swore unrighteously in deceit through contempt for holiness.


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For it is not the power of them by whom men swear,
but it is the just penalty for those who sin
that always visits the transgression of the unrighteous.


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For even if we sin, we are yours, knowing your dominion;
but we will not sin, knowing that we have been accounted yours.


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For to be acquainted with you is  perfect righteousness,
and to know your dominion is the root of immortality.


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For we weren’t led astray by any evil plan of men’s,
nor yet by painters’ fruitless labour,
a form stained with varied colours,


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For a potter, kneading soft earth,
laboriously moulds each article for our service.
He fashions out of the same clay
both the vessels that minister to clean uses, and those of a contrary sort,
all in like manner.
What shall be the use of each article of either sort,
the potter is the judge.


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Also, labouring to an evil end, he moulds a vain god out of the same clay,
he who, having but a little before been made of earth,
after a short space goes his way to the earth out of which he was taken,
when he is required to render back the  soul which was lent him.


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However he has anxious care,
not because his powers must fail,
nor because his span of life is short;
But he compares himself with goldsmiths and silversmiths,
and he imitates molders in  brass,
and esteems it glory that he moulds counterfeits.


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because he was ignorant of him who moulded him,
and of him that inspired into him  an active  soul,
and breathed into him a vital spirit.


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But  he accounted our life to be a game,
and our  lifetime a festival for profit;
for, he says, one must get gain however one can, even if it is by evil.


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For this man beyond all others knows that he sins,
out of earthy matter making brittle vessels and graven images.


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But most foolish and more miserable than a baby,
are the enemies of your people, who oppressed them;


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because they even considered all the idols of the nations to be gods,
which have neither the use of eyes for seeing,
nor nostrils for drawing breath,
nor ears to hear,
nor fingers for handling,
and their feet are helpless for walking.


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For a man made them,
and one whose own spirit is borrowed moulded them;
for no one has power as a man to mould a god like to himself.


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But, being mortal, he makes a dead thing by the work of lawless hands;
for he is better than the objects of his worship,
since he indeed had life, but they never did.


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Yes, and they worship the creatures that are most hateful,
for, being compared as to lack of sense, these are worse than all others;


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Neither, as seen beside other creatures, are they beautiful, so that one should desire them,
but they have escaped both the praise of God and his blessing.


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For this cause, they were deservedly punished through creatures like those which they worship,
and tormented through a multitude of vermin.


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contenido:
Instead of this punishment, you, giving benefits to your people,
prepared quails for food,
a delicacy to satisfy the desire of their appetite,


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to the end that your enemies, desiring food,
might for the hideousness of the creatures sent amongst them,
loathe even the necessary appetite;
but these, your people, having for a short time suffered lack,
might even partake of delicacies.


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For it was necessary that inescapable lack should come upon those oppressors,
but that to these it should only be showed how their enemies were tormented.


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For even when terrible raging of wild beasts came upon your people,
and they were perishing by the bites of crooked serpents,
your wrath didn’t continue to the uttermost;


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but for admonition were they troubled for a short time,
having a token of salvation
to put them in remembrance of the commandment of your law;


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for he who turned towards it was not saved because of that which was seen,
but because of you, the Saviour of all.


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For the bites of locusts and flies truly killed them.
No healing for their life was found,
because they were worthy to be punished by such things.


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But your children weren’t overcome by the very teeth of venomous dragons,
for your mercy passed by where they were and healed them.


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For they were bitten to put them in remembrance of your oracles,
and were quickly saved, lest, falling into deep forgetfulness,
they should become unable to respond to your kindness.


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For truly it was neither herb nor mollifying plaster that cured them,
but your word, O Lord, which heals all things.


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For you have authority over life and death,
and you lead down to the gates of Hades, and lead up again.


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But though a man kills by his wickedness,
he can’t retrieve the spirit that has departed
or release the soul the imprisoned soul.


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for ungodly men, refusing to know you, were scourged in the strength of your arm,
pursued with strange rains and hails and relentless storms,
and utterly consumed with fire.


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For, what was most marvellous,
in the water which quenches all things, the fire burnt hotter;
for the world fights for the righteous.


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For at one time the flame lost its fierceness,
that it might not burn up the creatures sent against the ungodly,
but that these themselves as they looked might see that they were chased through the judgement of God.


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At another time even in the midst of water it burns above the power of fire,
that it may destroy the products fruits of an unrighteous land.


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Instead of these things, you gave your people angels’ food to eat,
and you provided ready-to-eat bread for them from heaven without toil,
having the virtue of every pleasant flavour,
and agreeable to every taste.


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For your nature showed your sweetness towards your children,
while that bread, serving the desire of the eater,
changed itself according to every man’s choice.


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But snow and ice endured fire, and didn’t melt,
that people might know that fire was destroying the fruits of the enemies,
burning in the hail and flashing in the rains;


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and that this fire again, in order that righteous people may be nourished,
has even forgotten its own power.


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For the creation, ministering to you its maker,
strains its force against the unrighteous for punishment
and slackens it on behalf of those who trust in you, for kindness.


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Therefore at that time also, converting itself into all forms,
it ministered to your all-nourishing bounty,
according to the desire of those who had need,


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that your sons, whom you loved, O Lord, might learn
that it is not the growth of crops that nourishes a man,
but that your word preserves those who trust you.


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that it might be known that we must rise before the sun to give you thanks,
and must plead with you at the dawning of the light;


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for the hope of the unthankful will melt as the winter’s hoar frost,
and will flow away as water that has no use.


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For when lawless men had supposed that they held a holy nation in their power,
they, prisoners of darkness, and bound in the fetters of a long night,
kept close beneath their roofs,
lay exiled from the eternal providence.


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For while they thought that they were unseen intheir secret sins,
they were divided from one another by a dark curtain of forgetfulness,
stricken with terrible awe, and very troubled by apparitions.


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For neither did the dark recesses that held them guard them from fears,
But terrifying sounds rang around them,
and dismal phantoms appeared with unsmiling faces.


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And no force of fire prevailed to give light,
neither were the brightest flames of the stars strong enough to illuminate that gloomy night;


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but only the glimmering of a self-kindled fire appeared to them, full of fear.
In terror, they considered the things which they saw
to be worse than that sight, on which they could not gaze.


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The mockeries of their magic arts were powerless, now,
and a shameful rebuke of their boasted understanding:


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For those who promised to drive away terrors and disorders from a sick soul,
these were sick with a ludicrous fearfulness.


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For even if no troubling thing frighted them,
yet, scared with the creeping of vermin and hissing of serpents,


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they perished trembling in fear,
refusing even to look at the air, which could not be escaped on any side.


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For wickedness, condemned by a witness within, is a coward thing,
and, being pressed hard by conscience, always has added forecasts of the worst.


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and from within, the expectation of being less
makes of greater account the ignorance of the cause that brings the torment.


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But they, all through the night which was powerless indeed,
and which came upon them out of the recesses of powerless Hades,
sleeping the same sleep,


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now were haunted by monstrous apparitions,
and now were paralysed by their soul’s surrendering;
for sudden and unexpected fear came upon them.


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So then whoever it might be, sinking down in his place,
was kept captive, shut up in that prison which was not barred with iron;


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for whether he was a farmer, or a shepherd,
or a labourer whose toils were in the wilderness,
he was overtaken, and endured that inevitable necessity;
for they were all bound with one chain of darkness.


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Whether there was a whistling wind,
or a melodious sound of birds amongst the spreading branches,
or a measured fall of water running violently,


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or a harsh crashing of rocks hurled down,
or the swift course of animals bounding along unseen,
or the voice of wild beasts harshly roaring,
or an echo rebounding from the hollows of the mountains,
all these things paralysed them with terror.


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while over them alone was spread a heavy night,
an image of the darkness that should afterward receive them;
but to themselves, they were heavier than darkness.


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But for your holy ones there was great light.
Their enemies, hearing their voice but seeing not their form,
counted it a happy thing that they too had suffered,


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fet for that they do not hurt them, though wronged by them before, they are thankful;
and because they had been at variance with them, they begged for pardon.


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Whereas you provided a burning pillar of fire,
to be a guide for your people’s unknown journey,
and a harmless sun for their glorious exile.


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For the Egyptians well deserved to be deprived of light and imprisoned by darkness,
they who had imprisoned your children,
through whom the incorruptible light of the law was to be given to the race of men.


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After they had taken counsel to kill the babes of the holy ones,
and when a single child had been abandoned and saved to convict them of their sin,
you took away from them their multitude of children,
and destroyed all their army together in a mighty flood.


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Our fathers were made aware of that night beforehand,
that, having sure knowledge, they might be cheered by the oaths which they had trusted.


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For as you took vengeance on the adversaries,
by the same means, calling us to yourself, you glorified us.


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For holy children of good men offered sacrifice in secret,
and with one consent they took upon themselves the covenant of the divine law,
that they would partake alike in the same good things and the same perils,
the fathers already leading the sacred songs of praise.


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But the discordant cry of the enemies echoed back,
and a pitiful voice of lamentation for children was spread abroad.


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Both servant and master were punished with the same just doom,
and the commoner suffering the same as king;


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Yes, they all together, under one form of death,
had corpses without number.
For the living were not sufficient even to bury them,
Since at a single stroke, their most cherished offspring was consumed.


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For while they were disbelieving all things by reason of the enchantments,
upon the destruction of the firstborn they confessed the people to be God’s son.


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your all-powerful word leapt from heaven out of the royal thrones,
a stern warrior, into the midst of the doomed land,


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bearing as a sharp sword your authentic commandment,
and standing, it filled all things with death,
and while it touched the heaven it stood upon the earth.


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for the dreams, disturbing them, did forewarned them of this,
that they might not perish without knowing why they were afflicted.


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But experience of death also touched the righteous,
and a multitude were destroyed in the wilderness,
however the wrath didn’t last long.


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For a blameless man hurried to be their champion,
bringing the weapon of his own ministry,
prayer and the atoning sacrifice of incense,
he withstood the indignation, and set an end to the calamity,
showing that he was your servant.


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And he overcame the anger,
not by strength of body, not by force of weapons,
but he subdued him who was punishing by word,
by bringing to remembrance oaths and covenants made with the fathers.


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For when the dead had already fallen in heaps one upon another,
standing between he stopped the wrath,
and cut off the way to the living.


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For the whole world was upon his long robe,
and the glories of the fathers were upon the engraving of the four rows of precious stones,
and your majesty was upon the diadem of his head.


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how, having changed their minds to let your people go,
and having sped them eagerly on their way,
they would change their minds and pursue them.


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For while they were yet in the midst of their mourning,
and lamenting at the graves of the dead,
they drew upon themselves another counsel of folly,
and pursued as fugitives those whom they had begged to leave and driven out.


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For the doom which they deserved was drawing them to this end,
and it made them forget the things that had happened to them,
that they might fill up the punishment which was yet lacking to their torments,


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and that your people might journey on by a marvellous road,
but they themselves might find a strange death.


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For the whole creation, each part in its diverse kind, was made new again,
complying with your commandments,
that your servants might be kept unharmed.


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Then the cloud that overshadowed the camp was seen,
and dry land rising up out of what had been water,
out of the Red sea an unhindered highway,
and a grassy plain out of the violent surge,


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by which they passed over with all their army,
these who were covered with your hand,
having seen strange marvels.


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For like horses they roamed at large,
and they skipped about like lambs,
praising you, O Lord, who was their deliverer.


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For they still remembered the things that happened in the time of their sojourning,
how instead of bearing cattle, the land brought forth lice,
and instead of fish, the river spewed out a multitude of frogs.


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But afterwards, they also saw a new generation race of birds,
when, led on by desire, they asked for luxurious dainties;


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Punishments came upon the sinners,
not without the signs that were given beforehand by the force of the thunders;
for they justly suffered through their own wickednesses,
for the hatred which they practised towards guests was grievous indeed.


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For whereas the others didn’t receive the strangers when they came to them,
the Egyptians made slaves of guests who were their benefactors.


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And not only so, but God will visit the men of Sodom another way,
since they received as enemies those who were aliens;


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whereas these first welcomed with feastings,
and then afflicted with dreadful toils,
those who had already shared with them in the same rights.


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And moreover they were stricken with loss of sight
(even as were those others at the righteous man’s doors),
when, being surrounded with yawning darkness,
they each looked for the passage through his own door.


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For as the notes of a lute vary the character of the rhythm,
even so the elements, changing their order one with another,
continuing always in its sound,
as may clearly be conjectured from the sight of the things that have happened.


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For creatures of the dry land were turned into creatures of the waters,
and creatures that swim moved upon the land.


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On the contrary, flames didn’t consume flesh of perishable creatures that walked amongst them,
neither did they melt the ice-like grains of ambrosial food that were apt to melt.


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For in all things, O Lord, you magnified your people,
and you glorified them and didn’t lightly regard them,
standing by their side in every time and place.


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Whoever fears the Lord, it will go well with him at the last.
He will be blessed in the day of his death .


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He both saw and measured her.
He rained down skill and knowledge of understanding,
and exalted the honour of those who hold her fast.


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Don’t exalt yourself,
lest you fall and bring dishonour upon your soul.
The Lord will reveal your secrets
and will cast you down in the midst of the congregation,
because you didn’t come to the fear of the Lord
and your heart was full of deceit.


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Look at the generations of old, and see:
Who ever put his trust in the Lord, and was ashamed?
Or who remained in his fear, and was forsaken?
Or who called upon him, and he despised him?


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Those who fear the Lord will seek his good pleasure.
Those who love him will be filled with the law.


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contenido:
We will fall into the hands of the Lord,
and not into the hands of men;
for as his majesty is,
so also is his mercy.


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For the Lord has given the father glory concerning the children,
and has confirmed the judgement of the mother concerning the sons.


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contenido:
Whoever honours his father will have joy in his own children.
He will be heard in the day of his prayer.


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contenido:
He who gives glory to his father will have length of days.
He who listens to the Lord will bring rest to his mother,


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contenido:
For the blessing of the father establishes the houses of children,
but the curse of the mother roots out the foundations.


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contenido:
Don’t glorify yourself in the dishonour of your father,
for your father’s dishonour is no glory to you.


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contenido:
For the glory of a man is from the honour of his father,
and a mother in dishonour is a reproach to her children.


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contenido:
For the relieving of your father will not be forgotten.
Instead of sins it will be added to build you up.


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contenido:
In the day of your affliction it will remember you,
as fair weather upon ice,
ao will your sins also melt away.


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contenido:
Don’t seek things that are too hard for you,
and don’t search out things that are above your strength.


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contenido:
Think about the things that have been commanded you,
for you have no need of the things that are secret.


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contenido:
Don’t be overly busy in your superfluous works,
for more things are showed to you than men can understand.


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contenido:
He repays good turns is mindful of that which comes afterward.
In the time of his falling he will find a support.


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contenido:
Deliver him who is wronged from the hand of him that wrongs him;
Don’t be faint-hearted in giving judgement.


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contenido:
Be as a father to the fatherless,
and like a husband to their mother.
So you will be as a son of the Most High,
and he will love you more than your mother does.


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For at the first she will walk with him in crooked ways,
and will bring fear and dread upon him,
and torment him with her discipline,
until she may trust his soul, and try him by her judgements.


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Then she will return him again to the straight way,
and will gladden him, and reveal to him her secrets.


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contenido:
Don’t refrain from speaking when it is for safety.
Don’t hide your wisdom for the sake of seeming fair.


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contenido:
Don’t say, “His compassion is great.
He will be pacified for the multitude of my sins,”
for mercy and wrath are with him,
and his indignation will rest on sinners.


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Don’t wait to turn to the Lord.
Don’t put off from day to day;
for suddenly the wrath of the Lord will come on you,
and you will perish in the time of vengeance.


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contenido:
Don’t winnow with every wind.
Don’t walk in every path.
This is what the sinner who has a double tongue does.


book: Sir
contenido:
Don’t be called a whisperer.
Don’t lie in wait with your tongue;
for shame is on the thief,
and an evil condemnation is on him who has a double tongue.


book: Sir
contenido:
Don’t become an enemy instead of a friend;
for an evil name will inherit shame and reproach.
So it is with the sinner who has a double tongue.


book: Sir
contenido:
And there is a friend who is a companion at the table,
but he won’t continue in the day of your affliction.


book: Sir
contenido:
There is nothing that can be taken in exchange for a faithful friend.
His excellency is beyond price.


book: Sir
contenido:
Come to her as one who ploughs and sows
and wait for her good fruit;
for your toil will be little in her tillage,
and you will soon eat of her fruit.


book: Sir
contenido:
How exceedingly harsh she is to the unlearned!
He who is without understanding will not remain in her.


book: Sir
contenido:
My son, if you are willing, you will be instructed.
If you will yield your soul, you will be prudent.


book: Sir
contenido:
Let your mind dwell on the ordinances of the Lord
and meditate continually on his commandments.
He will establish your heart
and your desire for wisdom will be given to you.


book: Sir
contenido:
Don’t seek to be a judge,
lest you not be able to take away iniquities,
lest perhaps you fear the person of a mighty man,
and lay a stumbling block in the way of your uprightness.


book: Sir
contenido:
Don’t say, “He will look upon the multitude of my gifts.
When I make an offering to the Most High God, he will accept it.”


book: Sir
contenido:
Don’t laugh a man to scorn when he is in the bitterness of his soul,
for there is one who humbles and exalts.


book: Sir
contenido:
Give your daughter in marriage, and you will have accomplished a great matter.
Give her to a man of understanding.


book: Sir
contenido:
Do you have a wife after your mind? Don’t cast her out.
But don’t trust yourself to one who is hateful.


book: Sir
contenido:
Remember that you were born of them.
What will you repay them for the things that they have done for you?


book: Sir
contenido:
Fear the Lord and honour the priest.
Give him his portion, even as it is commanded you:
the first fruits, the trespass offering, the gift of the shoulders,
the sacrifice of sanctification, and the first fruits of holy things.


book: Sir
contenido:
Don’t strive with a rich man, lest perhaps he overpower you;
for gold has destroyed many,
and turned away the hearts of kings.


book: Sir
contenido:
Don’t neglect the discourse of the wise.
Be conversant with their proverbs;
for from them you will learn instruction
and how to minister to great men.


book: Sir
contenido:
Don’t miss the discourse of the aged,
for they also learnt from their fathers,
because from them you will learn understanding,
and to give an answer in time of need.


book: Sir
contenido:
Don’t rise up from the presence of an insolent man,
lest he lie in wait as an ambush for your mouth.


book: Sir
contenido:
Don’t go in the way with a rash man,
lest he be burdonsome to you;
for he will do according to his own will,
and you will perish with his folly.


book: Sir
contenido:
Don’t fight with a wrathful man.
Don’t travel with him through the desert,
for blood is as nothing in his sight.
Where there is no help, he will overthrow you.


book: Sir
contenido:
Turn your eye away from a beautiful woman,
and don’t gaze at another’s beauty.
Many have been led astray by the beauty of a woman;
and with this, affection is kindled as a fire.


book: Sir
contenido:
Don’t sit at all with a woman who has a husband,
or revel with her at the wine,
lest perhaps your soul turn away to her,
and with your spirit you slide into destruction.


book: Sir
contenido:
Don’t forsake an old friend;
for the new is not comparable to him.
A new friend is like new wine:
if it becomes old, you will drink it with gladness.


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contenido:
Keep yourself far from the man who has  power to kill,
and you will have no suspicion of the fear of death.
If you come to him, commit no fault,
lest he take away your life.
Know surely that you go about in the midst of snares,
and walk upon the battlements of a city.


book: Sir
contenido:
Let your conversation be with men of understanding.
Let all your discourse be in the law of the Most High.


book: Sir
contenido:
A work is commended because of the hand of the artisan;
so he who rules the people will be considered wise for his speech.


book: Sir
contenido:
A wise judge will instruct his people;
And the government of a man of understanding will be well ordered.


book: Sir
contenido:
As is the judge of his people, so are his ministers;
And as is the ruler of the city,such are all those who dwell therein.


book: Sir
contenido:
An uninstructed king will destroy his people;
And a city will be established through the understanding of the powerful.


book: Sir
contenido:
In the hand of the Lord is the authority of the earth;
And in due time he will raise up over it one that is profitable.


book: Sir
contenido:
In the hand of the Lord is the prosperity of a man;
And he will lay his honour upon the person of the scribe.


book: Sir
contenido:
Pride is hateful before the Lord andbefore men;
And in the judgement of both will unrighteousness err.


book: Sir
contenido:
Sovereignty is transferred from nation to nation,
Because of iniquities, and deeds of violence, and greed of money.


book: Sir
contenido:
It is the beginning of pride when a man departs from the Lord;
And his heart is departed from him that made him.


book: Sir
contenido:
For the beginning of pride is sin;
And he that keeps it will pour forth abomination.
For this cause the Lord brought upon them strange calamities,
And overthrew them utterly.


book: Sir
contenido:
What manner of seed has honour? the seed of man.
What manner of seed has honour? those who fear the Lord.
What manner of seed has no honour? the seed of man.
What manner of seed has no honour? those who transgress the commandments.


book: Sir
contenido:
In the midst of kindred he that rules them has honour;
And in the eyes of the Lord those who fear him.


book: Sir
contenido:
It is not right to dishonour a poor man that has understanding;
And it is not fitting to glorify a man that is a sinner.


book: Sir
contenido:
The great man, and the judge, and the mighty man, will be glorified;
And there is not one of them greater than he that fears the Lord.


book: Sir
contenido:
Better is he that labours, and abounds in all things,
Than he that glorifies himself, and lacks bread.


book: Sir
contenido:
Who will justify him that sins against his own soul?
And who will glorify him that dishonours his own life?


book: Sir
contenido:
But he that is glorified in poverty, how much more in riches?
And he that is inglorious in riches, how much more in poverty?


book: Sir
contenido:
Glory not in the putting on of raiment,
And exalt not yourself in the day of honour;
For the works of the Lord are wonderful,
And his works are hidden amongst men.


book: Sir
contenido:
Many mighty men have been greatly disgraced;
And men of renown have been delivered into other men’s hands.


book: Sir
contenido:
My son, be not busy about many matters:
For if you meddle much, you will not be unpunished;
And if you pursue, you will not overtake;
And you will not escape by fleeing.


book: Sir
contenido:
There is one that is sluggish, and has need of help,
Lacking in strength, and that abounds in poverty;
And the eyes of the Lord looked upon him for good,
And he set him up from his low estate,


book: Sir
contenido:
When he says, I have found rest,
And now I will eat of my goods;
Yet he knows not what time will pass,
And he will leave them to others, and die.


book: Sir
contenido:
Marvel not at the works of a sinner;
But trust the Lord, and stay in your labour:
For it is an easy thing in the sight of the Lord swiftly on the sudden to make a poor man rich.


book: Sir
contenido:
The blessing of the Lord is in the reward of the godly;
And in an hour that comes swiftly he makes his blessing to flourish.


book: Sir
contenido:
In the day of good things there is a forgetfulness of evil things;
And in the day of evil things a man will not remember things that are good.


book: Sir
contenido:
For it is an easy thing in the sight of the Lord
To reward a man in the day of death according to his ways.


book: Sir
contenido:
The affliction of an hour causes forgetfulness of delight;
And in the last end of a man is the revelation of his deeds.


book: Sir
contenido:
As a decoy partridge in a cage, so is the heart of a proud man;
And as one that is a spy, he looks uponyour falling.


book: Sir
contenido:
For he lies in wait to turn things that are good into evil;
And in things that are praiseworthy he will lay blame.


book: Sir
contenido:
Take heed of an evil-doer, for he contrives wicked things;
Lest perhaps he bring upon you blame forever.


book: Sir
contenido:
Receive a stranger into your house, and he will distract you with brawls,
And estrange you from your own.


book: Sir
contenido:
Do good to a godly man, and you will find a recompense;
And if not from him, yet from the Most High.


book: Sir
contenido:
Do good to one that is lowly,
And give not to an ungodly man:
Keep back his bread, and give it not to him,
Lest he overmaster you by it:
For you will receive twice as much evil
For all the good you will have done to him.


book: Sir
contenido:
A man’s friend will not be  fully tried in prosperity;
And his enemy will not be hidden in adversity.


book: Sir
contenido:
In a man’s prosperity his enemies are grieved;
And in his adversity even his friend will be separatedfrom him.


book: Sir
contenido:
Though he humble himself, and go crouching,
Yet take good heed, and beware of him,
And you will be to him as one that has wiped a mirror,
And you will know that  he has not utterly rusted it.


book: Sir
contenido:
Set him not by you,
Lest he overthrow you and stand in your place;
Let him not sit on your right hand,
Lest he seek to take your seat,
And at the last you acknowledge my words,
And be pricked with my sayings.


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contenido:
And the enemy will speak sweetly with his lips,
And in his heart take counsel how to overthrow you into a pit:
The enemy will weep with his eyes,
And if he find opportunity, he will not be satiated with blood.


book: Sir
contenido:
If adversity meet you, you will find him there before you;
And as though he would help you, he will trip up your heel.


book: Sir
contenido:
He that touches pitch will be defiled;
And he that has fellowship with a proud man will become like to him.


book: Sir
contenido:
Take not up a burden above your strength;
And have no fellowship with one that is mightier and richer than yourself.
What fellowship shall the earthen pot have with the kettle?
This will strike, and that will be dashed in pieces.


book: Sir
contenido:
The rich man does a wrong, and he threatens withal:
The poor is wronged, and he will entreat withal.


book: Sir
contenido:
Does he need of you? then he will deceive you,
And smile upon you, and give you hope:
He will speak you fair, and say, What need you?


book: Sir
contenido:
And he will shame you by his meats,
Until he have made you bare twice or thrice,
And at the last he will laugh you to scorn:
Afterward he will see you, and will forsake you,
And shake his head at you.


book: Sir
contenido:
Do not try to speak with him as an equal,
And believe not his many words:
For he will test you with much talk,
And will search you out in a smiling manner.


book: Sir
contenido:
He that doesn’t keep spoken words to himself is unmerciful;
And he will not spare to hurt and to bind.


book: Sir
contenido:
What peace is there between the hyena and the dog?
And what peace between the rich man and the poor?


book: Sir
contenido:
A rich man when he is shaken is held up of his friends;
But one of low degree being down is thrust away also by his friends.


book: Sir
contenido:
When a rich man is fallen, there are many helpers;
He speaks  things not to be spoken, and men justify him:
A man of low degree falls, and men rebuke him withal;
He utters wisdom, and no place is allowed him.


book: Sir
contenido:
A rich man speaks, and all keep silence;
And what he says they extol to the clouds:
A poor man speaks, and they say, Who is this?
And if he stumble, they will help to overthrow him.


book: Sir
contenido:
A cheerful countenance is a token of a heart that is in prosperity;
And the finding out of parables is a weariness of thinking.


book: Sir
contenido:
Do well to your friend before you die;
And according to your ability stretch outyour hand and give to him.


book: Sir
contenido:
As of the leaves flourishing on a thick tree,
Some it sheds, and some it makes to grow;
So also of the generations of flesh and blood,
One comes to an end, and another is born.


book: Sir
contenido:
He will be stayed upon her, and will not be moved;
And will rely upon her, and will not be confounded.


book: Sir
contenido:
And she will exalt him above his neighbours;
And she will open his mouth in the midst of the congregation.


book: Sir
contenido:
Don’t say you, It is through the Lord that I fell away;
For you shall not do the things that he hates.


book: Sir
contenido:
If you will, you shall keep the commandments;
And to perform faithfulness is ofyour own good pleasure.


book: Sir
contenido:
Trust not you in their life,
Neither rely on their condition:
For one is better than a thousand;
And to die childless than to have ungodly children.


book: Sir
contenido:
For from one that has understanding will a city be populated;
But a race of wicked men will be made desolate.


book: Sir
contenido:
In the congregation of sinners will a fire be kindled;
And in a disobedient nation wrath is kindled.


book: Sir
contenido:
And in like manner the six hundred thousand footmen,
Who were gathered together in the hardness of their hearts.


book: Sir
contenido:
Even if there be one stiff-necked person,
It is marvel if he will be unpunished:
For mercy and wrath are with him;
He is mighty to forgive, and he pours out wrath.


book: Sir
contenido:
The sinner will not escape withhis plunder;
And the perseverance of the godly will not be frustrated.


book: Sir
contenido:
Don’t say, I shall be hidden from the Lord;
And who will remember me from on high?
I will not be known amongst so many people;
For what is my soul in a boundless creation?


book: Sir
contenido:
Behold, the heaven, and the heaven of heavens,
The deep, and the earth, will be moved when he shall visit.


book: Sir
contenido:
The mountains and the foundations of the earth together
Are shaken with trembling, when he looks upon them.


book: Sir
contenido:
Who will declare the works ofhis righteousness?
Or who will endure them?
For his covenant is afar off.


book: Sir
contenido:
He that is lacking in  understanding thinks upon these things;
And an unwise and erring man thinks follies.


book: Sir
contenido:
In the judgement of the Lord are his works from the beginning;
And from the making of them he disposed the parts thereof.


book: Sir
contenido:
He garnished his works forever,
And the beginnings of them to their generations:
They neither hunger, nor are weary,
And they cease not from their works.


book: Sir
contenido:
He gave them days by number, and a set time,
And gave them authority over the things that are on it.


book: Sir
contenido:
And he said to them, Beware of all unrighteousness;
And he gave them commandment, each man concerning his neighbour.


book: Sir
contenido:
With him the alms of a man is as a signet;
And he will keep the bounty of a man as the apple of the eye.


book: Sir
contenido:
Thanksgiving perishes from the dead, as from one that is not:
He that is in life and health will praise the Lord.


book: Sir
contenido:
As for the wondrous works of the Lord, it is not possible to take from them nor add to them,
Neither is it possible to track them out.


book: Sir
contenido:
When a man has finished, then he is but at the beginning;
And when he ceases, then he will be in perplexity.


book: Sir
contenido:
As a drop of water from the sea, and a pebble from the sand;
So are a few years in the day of eternity.


book: Sir
contenido:
The mercy of a man is upon his neighbour;
But the mercy of the Lord is upon all flesh;
Reproving, and chastening, and teaching,
And bringing again, as a shepherd does his flock.


book: Sir
contenido:
Think upon the wraththat will be in the days of the end,
And the time of vengeance, when he turns away his face.


book: Sir
contenido:
They that were of understanding in sayings became also wise themselves,
And poured forth apt proverbs.


book: Sir
contenido:
If you give fully to your soul the delight of her desire,
She will make you  the laughing stock of your enemies.


book: Sir
contenido:
A workman that is a drunkard will not become rich:
He that despises small things will fall by little and little.


book: Sir
contenido:
Wine and women will make men of understanding to fall away:
And he that joins with prostitutes will be the more reckless.


book: Sir
contenido:
Reprove your neighbour; it may be he said it not:
And if he has said it, that he may not say it again.


book: Sir
contenido:
Better is one that has small understanding, and fears,
Than one that has much prudence, and transgresses the law.


book: Sir
contenido:
There is an exquisite subtlety, and it is unjust;
And there is one that perverts favour  to gain a judgement.


book: Sir
contenido:
There is one that does wickedly, that hangs down his head with mourning;
But inwardly he is full of deceit,


book: Sir
contenido:
Bowing down his face, and making as if he were deaf of one ear:
Where he is not known, he will be beforehand with you.


book: Sir
contenido:
A man will be known by his look,
And one that has understanding will be known by his face, when you meet him.


book: Sir
contenido:
How good is it to reprove, rather than to be angry;
And he that makes confession will be kept back from hurt.


book: Sir
contenido:
There is one that keeps silence, and is found wise;
And there is one that is hated for his much talk.


book: Sir
contenido:
There is one that keeps silence, for he has no answer to make;
And there is that keeps silence, as knowing his time.


book: Sir
contenido:
He that uses many words will be abhorred;
And he that takes to himself authority therein will be hated.


book: Sir
contenido:
He will give little, and upbraid much;
And he will open his mouth like a crier:
Today he will lend, and tomorrow he will ask it again:
Such an one is a hateful man.


book: Sir
contenido:
The fool will say, I have no friend,
And I have no thanks for my good deeds;
They that eat my bread are of evil tongue.


book: Sir
contenido:
A slip on a pavement is better thana slip with the tongue;
So the fall of the wicked will come speedily.


book: Sir
contenido:
There is that is hindered from sinning through lack;
And when he takes rest, he will not be troubled.


book: Sir
contenido:
There is that destroys his soul through bashfulness;
And by a foolish countenance he will destroy it.


book: Sir
contenido:
He that tils his land will raise his heap high;
And he that pleases great men will get pardon for iniquity.


book: Sir
contenido:
Flee from sin as from the face of a serpent;
For if you draw near it will bite you:
The teeth thereof are the teeth of a lion,
Slaying the souls of men.


book: Sir
contenido:
One that hates reproof is in the path of the sinner;
And he that fears the Lord will turn again in his heart.


book: Sir
contenido:
He that builds his house with other men’s money
Is like one that gathers himself stones against winter.


book: Sir
contenido:
He that keeps the law becomes master of the intent thereof;
And the end of the fear of the Lord is wisdom.


book: Sir
contenido:
He that is not clever will not be instructed;
And there is a cleverness which makes bitterness to abound.


book: Sir
contenido:
The knowledge of a wise man will be made to abound as a flood;
And his counsel as a fountain of life.


book: Sir
contenido:
If a man of knowledge hear a wise word,
He will commend it, and add to it:
The dissolute man hears it, and it displeases him,
And he puts it away behind his back.


book: Sir
contenido:
The discourse of a fool is like a burden in the way;
But grace will be found on the lips of the wise.


book: Sir
contenido:
The mouth of the prudent man will be sought for in the congregation;
And they will ponder his words in their heart.


book: Sir
contenido:
As a house that is destroyed, so is wisdom to a fool;
And the knowledge of an unwise man isas  talk without sense.


book: Sir
contenido:
The foot of a fool is soon inanother man’s house;
But a man of experience will be ashamed of entering.


book: Sir
contenido:
A foolish man peeps in from the door ofanother man’s house;
But a man that is instructed will stand without.


book: Sir
contenido:
It is a lack of instruction in a man to listen at the door;
But the prudent man will be grieved with the disgrace.


book: Sir
contenido:
The lips of strangers will be grieved at these things;
But the words of prudent men will be weighed in the balance.


book: Sir
contenido:
A slothful man is compared to a stone that is defiled;
And every one will hiss him out in his disgrace.


book: Sir
contenido:
A slothful man is compared to the filth of a dunghill:
Every man that takes it up will shake out his hand.


book: Sir
contenido:
A father has shame in having begotten an uninstructedson;
And afoolish daughter is born to his loss.


book: Sir
contenido:
A prudent daughter will inherit a husband of her own;
And she that brings shame is the grief of her father.


book: Sir
contenido:
Unseasonable discourse isas music in mourning;
But stripes and correction are wisdom at every season.


book: Sir
contenido:
He that teaches a fool isas one that glues a potsherd together;
Even as one that wakes a sleeper out of a deep sleep.


book: Sir
contenido:
He who teaches a fool isas one who teaches a man who slumbers;
And at the end he will say, What is it?


book: Sir
contenido:
Weep for the dead, for light has failedhim;
And weep for a fool, for understanding has failedhim:
Weep more sweetly for the dead, because he has found rest;
But the life of the fool is worse than death.


book: Sir
contenido:
Seven days arethe days of mourning for the dead;
But for a fool and an ungodly man, all the days of his life.


book: Sir
contenido:
Talk not much with a foolish man,
And go not to one that has no understanding:
Beware of him, lest you have trouble;
Andso you shall not be  defiled in his onslaught:
Turn away from him, and you will find rest;
Andso you shall not be wearied in his madness.


book: Sir
contenido:
Timber girded and bound into a building will not be released with shaking:
So a heart established in due season on well advised counsel will not be afraid.


book: Sir
contenido:
Pales set on a high place will not stand against the wind:
So a fearful heart in the imagination of a fool will not stand against any fear.


book: Sir
contenido:
He that pricks the eye will make tears to fall;
And he that pricks the heart makes it to show feeling.


book: Sir
contenido:
Whoso casts a stone at birds frays them away;
And he that upbraids a friend will dissolve friendship.


book: Sir
contenido:
If you have opened your mouth against a friend, fear not;
For there may be a reconciling;
Except it be for upbraiding, and arrogance, and disclosing of a secret, and a treacherous blow:
For these things every friend will flee.


book: Sir
contenido:
Gain trust with your neighbour in his poverty,
That in his prosperity you may have gladness:
Stay steadfast to him in the time of his affliction,
That you may be heir with him in his inheritance.


book: Sir
contenido:
Who shall set a watch over my mouth,
And a seal of shrewdness upon my lips,
That I fall not from it, and that my tongue destroy me not?


book: Sir
contenido:
O Lord, Father and Master of my life,
Abandon me not to their counsel:
Suffer me not to fall by them.


book: Sir
contenido:
Who will set scourges over my thought,
And a discipline of wisdom over my heart?
That they spare me not for my ignorances,
Andmy heart pass not by their sins:


book: Sir
contenido:
That my ignorances be not multiplied,
And my sins abound not;
And I will fall before my adversaries,
And my enemy rejoice over me.


book: Sir
contenido:
For as a servant that is continually scourged will not lack a bruise,
So he also that swears and namesGod continually will not be cleansed from sin.


book: Sir
contenido:
A man of many oaths will be filled with iniquity;
And the scourge will not depart from his house:
If he shall offend, his sin will be upon him;
And if he disregard it, he has sinned doubly;
And if he has sworn in vain, he will not be justified;
For his house will be filled with calamities.


book: Sir
contenido:
There is a manner of speech that is clothed about with death:
Let it not be found in the heritage of Jacob;
For all these things will be far from the godly,
And they will not wallow in sins.


book: Sir
contenido:
Remember your father and your mother,
For you sit in the midst of great men;
That you be not forgetful before them,
And become a fool by your custom;
So will you wish that you had not been born,
And curse the day of your nativity.


book: Sir
contenido:
Two sortsof men multiply sins,
And the third will bring wrath:
A hot mind, as a burning fire, will not be quenched till it be consumed:
A fornicator in the body of his flesh will never cease till he has  burnt out the fire.


book: Sir
contenido:
A man that goes astray from his own bed,
Saying in his heart, Who sees me?
Darkness is round about me, and the walls hide me,
And no man sees me; of whom am I afraid?
The Most High will not remember my sins;


book: Sir
contenido:
—And the eyes of men are his terror,
And he knows not that the eyes of the Lord are ten thousand times brighter than the sun,
Beholding all the ways of men,
And looking into secret places.


book: Sir
contenido:
All things were known to him or ever they were created;
And in like manner also after they were perfected.


book: Sir
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For first, she was disobedient in the law of the Most High;
And secondly, she trespassed against her own husband;
And thirdly, she played the adulteress in whoredom,
And brought in children by a stranger.


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And those who are left behind will know that there is nothing better than the fear of the Lord,
And nothing sweeter than to take heed to the commandments of the Lord.


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She will open her mouth in the congregation of the Most High,
And glory in the presence of his power.


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Then the Creator of all things gave me a commandment;
And he that created me made my tabernacle to rest,
And said, Let your tabernacle be in Jacob,
And your inheritance in Israel.


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I was exalted like a palm tree on the sea shore,
And as rose plants in Jericho,
And as a fair olive tree in the plain;
And I was exalted as a plane tree.


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As cinnamon and aspalathus, I have given a scent of perfumes;
And as choice myrrh, I spread abroad a pleasant odour;
As  galbanum, and onyx, and stacte,
And as the fume of frankincense in the tabernacle.


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All these things are the book of the covenant of the Most High God,
Even the law which Moses commanded us for a heritage to the assemblies of Jacob.


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I said, I will water my garden,
And will water abundantly my garden bed;
And, behold, my stream became a river,
And my river became a sea.


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I will yet bring instruction to light as the morning,
And will make  these things to shine forth afar off.


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In three things I was beautified,
And stood up beautiful before the Lord and men:
The concord of kindred, and friendship of neighbours,
And a woman and her husband that walk together in agreement.


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But three sortsof men my soul hates,
And I am greatly offended at their life:
A poor man that is arrogant, and a rich man that is a liar,
And an old man that is an adulterer lacking understanding.


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There be nine things that I have thought of, and in my heart counted happy;
And the tenth I will utter with my tongue:
A man that has joy of his children;
A man that lives and looks upon the fall of his enemies:


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Happy is he that dwells with a wife of understanding;
And he that has not slipped with his tongue;
And he that has not served a man that is unworthy of him:


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Any calamity, but a calamity from those who hate me;
And any vengeance, but the vengeance of enemies.


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A wicked woman is abasement of heart,
And sadness of countenance, and a wounded heart:
A woman that will not make her husband happy
Isas hands that hang down, and palsied knees.


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Of three things my heart was afraid;
And concerning the fourth  kind I made supplication:
The slander of a city, and the assembly of a multitude, and a false accusation:
All these are more grievous than death.


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A grief of heart and sorrow is a woman that is jealous ofanother woman,
And the scourge of a tongue communicating to all.


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A wicked woman isas a yoke of oxen shaken to and fro:
He that takes hold of her is as one that grasps a scorpion.


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She will open her mouth, as a thirsty traveller,
And drink of every water that is near:
She will sit down at every post,
And open her quiver againstany arrow.


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As the sun when it arises in the highest places of the Lord,
So is the beauty of a good wife in the ordering of  a man’s house.


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As the golden pillars are upon a base of silver,
So are beautiful feet with the breasts of one that is steadfast.


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For two things my heart is grieved;
And for the third anger comes upon me:
A man of war that suffers for poverty;
And men of understanding that are counted as refuse:
One that turns back from righteousness to sin;
The Lord will prepare him for the sword.


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A nail will stick fast between the joinings of stones;
And sin will  thrust itself in between buying and selling.


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The fruit of a tree declares the husbandry thereof;
So is the utterance of the thought of the heart of a man.


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Amongst men void of understanding observe the opportunity;
But stay continually amongst the thoughtful.


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The talk of a man of many oaths will make the hair stand upright;
And their strife makes one stop his ears.


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The strife of the proud is a shedding of blood;
And their reviling of each other is a grievous thing to hear.


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Love a friend, and keep faith with him:
But if you reveal his secrets,
You shall not pursue after him;


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And as a bird which you have released out of your hand,
So have you let your neighbour go, and you will not catch him again:


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For a wound may be bound up, and after reviling there may be a reconcilement;
But he that reveals secrets has lost hope.


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When you are present, he will speak sweetly,
And will admire your words;
But afterward he will writhe his mouth,
And set a trapfor you in your words.


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He that does evil things, they will roll upon him,
And he will not know whence they have come to him.


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contenido:
They that rejoice at the fall of the godly will be taken in a snare;
And anguish will consume them before they die.


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Forgive your neighbour the hurt that he has doneyou;
And then your sins will be pardoned when you pray.


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Remember your last end, and cease from enmity:
Remember corruption and death, and remain in the commandments.


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Remember the commandments, and be not angry with your neighbour;
Andremember the covenant of the Highest, and wink at ignorance.


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And a man that is a sinner will trouble friends,
And will make debate amongst those who are at peace.


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As is the fuel of the fire, so will it burn;
And as the stoutness of the strife is,so will it burn:
As is the strength of the man,so will be his wrath;
And as is his wealth,so he will exalt his anger.


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If you blow a spark, it will burn;
And if you spit upon it, it will be quenched:
And both these shall come out of your mouth.


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A third person’s tongue has shaken many,
And dispersed them from nation to nation;
And it has pulled down strong cities,
And overthrown the houses of great men.


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Many have fallen by the edge of the sword:
Yet not so many as those who have fallen because of the tongue.


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Happy is he that is sheltered from it,
That has not passed through the wrath thereof;
That has not drawn its yoke,
And has not been bound with its bands.


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They that forsake the Lord shall fall into it;
And it shall burn amongst them, and shall not be quenched:
It shall be sent forth upon them as a lion;
And as a leopard it shall destroy them.


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He that shows mercy will lend to his neighbour;
And he that strengthens him with his hand keeps the commandments.


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Till he has received, he will kiss a man’s hands;
And for his neighbour’s money he will speak submissly:
And when payment is due, he will prolong the time,
And return words of heaviness, and complain of  the times.


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If he prevail, he shall hardly receive the half;
And he will count it as a windfall:
If not, he has deprived him of his money,
And he has gotten him for an enemy without cause:
He will pay him with cursing and railing;
And for honour he will pay him disgrace.


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Bestow your treasure according to the commandments of the Most High;
And it shall profit you more than gold.


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Suretiship has undone many that were prospering,
And shaken them as a wave of the sea:
Mighty men has it driven from their homes;
And they wandered amongst strange nations.


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Help your neighbour according to your power,
And take heed to yourself that you fall notthe same way.


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Better is the life of a poor man under a shelter of logs,
Than sumptuous fare in another man’s house.


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It is a miserable life to go from house to house:
And where you are a sojourner, you shall notdare to open your mouth.


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You shall entertain, and give to drink, and have no thanks:
And in addition to this you shall hear bitter words.


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Go forth, you sojourner, from the face of honour;
My brother is come to be my guest; I have need of my house.


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These things are grievous to a man of understanding;
The upbraiding of house-room, and the reproaching of the money-lender.


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He that loves his son will continue to lay stripes upon him,
That he may have joy of him in the end.


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He that chastises his son shall have profit of him,
And shall glory of him amongst his acquaintance.


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He that teaches his son shall provoke his enemy to jealousy;
And before friends he shall rejoice of him.


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He that makes too much of his son shall bind up his wounds;
And his heart will be troubled at every cry.


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Bow down his neck in his youth,
And beat him on the sides while he is a child,
Lest he wax stubborn, and be disobedient to you;
And there shall be sorrow to your soul.


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Better is a poor man, being sound and strong of constitution,
Than a rich man that is plagued in his body.


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Health and a good constitution are better than all gold;
And a strong body than wealth without measure.


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What does an offering profit an idol?
For neither shall it eat nor smell:
So is he that is afflicted of the Lord,


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Love your own soul, and comfort your heart:
And remove sorrow far from you;
For sorrow has destroyed many,
And there is no profit therein.


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He that loves gold shall not be justified;
And he that follows destruction shall himself have his fillof it.


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Many have been given over to ruin for the sake of gold;
And their perdition  meets them face to face.


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Who has been tried by it, and found perfect?
Then let him glory.
Who has had the power to transgress, and has not transgressed?
And to do evil, and has not done it?


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Remember that an evil eye is a wicked thing:
What has been created more evil than an eye?
Therefore it sheds tears from every face.


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Eat, asbecomes a man, those things which are set before you;
And eat not greedily, lest you be hated.


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Healthy sleep comes of moderate eating;
He rises early, and his wits are with him:
The pain of wakefulness, and colic,
And griping, are with an insatiable man.


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Hear me, my son, and despise me not,
And at the last you shall find my wordstrue:
In all your works be quick,
And no disease shall come to you.


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Him that is liberal of his meat the lips shall bless;
And the testimony of his excellence shall be believed.


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The city will murmer at he who is a stingy with his meat;
And the testimony of his stinginess will be sure.


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The furnace proves the temperof steel by dipping;
So does wineprove hearts in the quarrelling of the proud.


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Wine is as good as life to men,
If you drink it in its measure:
What life is there to a man that is without wine?
And it has been created to make men glad.


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Rebuke not your neighbour at a banquet of wine,
Neither set him at nothing in his mirth:
Speak not to him a word of reproach,
And press not upon him by asking backa debt.


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Have they made you rulerof a feast?
Be not lifted up,
Be you amongst them as one of them;
Take thought for them, and so sit down.


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And when you have done all your office, take your place,
That you may be gladdened on their account,
And receive a crown for your well ordering.


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If you be amongst great men, behave not as their equal;
And when another is speaking, make not much babbling.


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A man of counsel will not neglect a thought;
A strange and proud man will not crouch in fear,
Even after he has done a thing by himself without counsel.


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He that believes the law gives heed to the commandment;
And he that trusts in the Lord shall suffer no loss.


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There shall no evil happen to him that fears the Lord;
But in temptation once and again he will deliver him.


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A man of understanding will put his trust in the law;
And the law is faithful to him, as when one asks at the oracle.


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Some of them he blessed and exalted,
And some of them he hallowed and brought near to himself:
Some of them he cursed and brought low,
And overthrew them from their place.


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As the clay of the potter in his hand,
All his ways are according to his good pleasure;
So men are in the hand of him that made them,
To render to them according to his judgement.


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Good is the opposite of evil,
And life is the opposite of death:
So is  the sinner is the opposite of the godly.


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And I waked up last,
As one that gleans after the grape gatherers:
By the blessing of the Lord I got before them,
And filled my winepress as one that gathers grapes.


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To son and wife, to brother and friend,
Give not power over you while you live;
And give not your goods to another,
Lest you repent and make supplication for themagain.


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For better it is that your children should supplicate you,
Than that you should look to the hand of your sons.


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In the day that you endest the days of your life,
And in the time of death, distribute your inheritance.


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If you have a servant, treat him as yourself;
For as your own soul will you have need of him:
If you treat him ill, and he depart and run away,
Which way will you go to seek him?


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Divinations, and soothsayings, and dreams, are vain:
And the heart fancies, as a woman’s in travail.


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A well-instructed man knows many things;
And he that has much experience will declare understanding.


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The eyes of the Lord are upon those who love him,
A mighty protection and strong stay,
A cover from the hot blast, and a cover from the noonday,
A guard from stumbling, and a help from falling.


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He that sacrifices of a thing wrongfully gotten, his offering is made in mockery;
And the mockeries of wicked men are not well-pleasing.


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The Most High has no pleasure in the offerings of the ungodly;
Neither is he pacified for sins by the multitude of sacrifices.


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As one that kills the son before his father’s eyes
Is he that brings a sacrifice from the goods of the poor.


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As one that slays his neighbour is he that takes away his living;
Andas a shedder of blood is he that deprives a hireling of his hire.


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contenido:
He that washes himself aftertouching a dead body, and touches it again,
What profit has he in his washing?


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Even so a man fasting for his sins,
And going again, and doing the same;
Who will listen to his prayer?
And what profit has he in his humiliation?


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He that keeps the law multiplies offerings;
He that takes heed to the commandments sacrifices a peace offering.


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To depart from wickedness is a thing pleasing to the Lord;
And to depart from unrighteousness is an atoning sacrifice.


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The offering of the righteous makes the altar fat;
And the sweet savour thereofis before the Most High.


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Think not to corrupt with gifts; for he will not receive them:
And set not your mind on an unrighteous sacrifice;
For the Lord is judge,
And with him is no respect of persons.


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He will not accept any person against a poor man;
And he will listen to the prayer of him that is wronged.


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He will in no wise despise the supplication of the fatherless;
Nor the widow,  when she pours out her tale.


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Do not the tears of the widow run down her cheek?
And is not her cry against him that has caused them to fall?


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He that servesGod according to his good pleasure shall be accepted,
And his supplication shall reach to the clouds.


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The prayer of the humble pierces the clouds;
And till it come near, he will not be comforted;
And he will not depart, till the Most High shall visit;
And he shall judge  righteously, and execute judgement.


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And the Lord will not be slack, neither will he be patient towards them,
Till he have crushed the loins of the unmerciful;
And he shall repay vengeance to the heathen;
Till he have taken away the multitude of the arrogant,
And broken in pieces the sceptres of the unrighteous;


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Till he have rendered toevery man according to his doings,
Andto the works of men according to their plans;
Till he have judged the cause of his people;
And he shall make them to rejoice in his mercy.


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Let him that escapes be devoured by the rage of fire;
And may those who harm your people find destruction.


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Gather all the tribes of Jacob together,
And  take them for your inheritance, as from the beginning.


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O Lord, have mercy upon the people that is called by your name,
And upon Israel, whom you did liken to a firstborn.


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Give testimony to those that were your creatures in the beginning,
And raise up the prophecies that have been in your name.


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Listen, O Lord, to the prayer of your suppliants,
According to the blessing of Aaron concerning your people;
And all those who are on the earth shall know
That you are the Lord, the  eternal God.


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Where no hedge is, the possession will be laid waste:
And he that has no wife will mourn as he wanders up and down.


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contenido:
For who will trust a nimble robber, that skips from city to city?
Even sowho shall trust a man that has no nest, and lodges wherever he finds himself at nightfall?


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There is a companion, which rejoices in the gladness of a friend,
But in time of affliction will be against him.


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There is a companion, which for the belly’s sake labours with his friend,
In the face of battle will take up the buckler.


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Let your soul beware of a counsellor,
And know you before what is his interest
(For he will take counsel for himself);
Lest he cast the lot upon you,


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Take not counsel with one that looks askance at you;
And hide your counsel from such as are jealous of you.


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Take not counsel with a woman about her rival;
Neither with a coward about war;
Nor with a merchant about exchange;
Nor with a buyer about selling;
Nor with an envious man about thankfulness;
Nor with an unmerciful man about kindliness;
Nor with a sluggard about any kind of work;
Nor with a hireling in your house about finishinghis work;
Nor with an idle servant about much business:
Give not heed to these in any matter of counsel.


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But rather be continually with a godly man,
Whom you shall have known to be a keeper of the commandments,
Who in his soul is as your own soul,
And who will grieve with you, if you shall miscarry.


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For a man’s soul is sometimes wont to bring him tidings,
More than seven watchmen that sit on high on a watch-tower.


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contenido:
four manner of things do rise up,
Good and evil, life and death;
And that which rules over them continually is the tongue.


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There is one that is wise to his own soul;
And the fruits of his understanding are trustworthy in the mouth.


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Honour a physician according to your needof him with the honours due to him:
For truly the Lord has created him.


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contenido:
The skill of the physician shall lift up his head;
And in the sight of great men he shall be admired.


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contenido:
With these will the apothecary make a confection;
And his works shall not be brought to an end;
And from him is peace upon the face of the earth.


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Then give place to the physician, for truly the Lord has created him;
And let him not go from you, for you have need of him.


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For they also shall beseech the Lord,
That he may prosper them ingiving relief and in healing for the maintenance of life.


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contenido:
My son, let your tears fall over the dead,
And as one that suffers grievously begin lamentation;
And wind up his body according to his due,
And neglect not his burial.


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contenido:
Make bitter weeping, and make passionate wailing,
And let your mourning be according to his desert,
For one day or two, lest you be evil spoken of:
And so be comforted for your sorrow.


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contenido:
Don’t forget it, for there is no returning again:
Him you shall not profit, and you will hurt yourself.


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contenido:
When the dead is at rest, let his remembrance rest;
And be comforted for him, when his spirit departs from him.


book: Sir
contenido:
The wisdom of the scribe comes by opportunity of leisure;
And  he that has little business shall become wise.


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contenido:
How shall he become wise that holds the plough,
That glories in the shaft of the goad,
That drives oxen, and is occupied in their labours,
And whose discourse is of the stock of bulls?


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contenido:
He will set his heart upon turning his furrows;
And his wakefulness is to give his heifers their fodder.


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contenido:
So is every craftsman and workmaster,
That passes his time by night as by day;
They that cut gravings of signets,
And his diligence is to make great variety;
He will set his heart to preserve likeness in his portraiture,
And will be wakeful to finish his work.


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So is the smith sitting by the anvil,
And considering the unwrought iron:
The vapour of the fire will waste his flesh;
And in the heat of the furnace he will wrestlewith his work:
The noise of the hammer will  be ever in his ear,
And his eyes are upon the pattern of the vessel;
He will set his heart upon perfecting his works,
And And he will be wakeful to adorn them perfectly.


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So is the potter sitting at his work,
And turning the wheel about with his feet,
Who is always anxiously set at his work,
And all his handiwork is by number;


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contenido:
He will fashion the clay with his arm,
And will bend its strength in front of his feet;
He will apply his heart to finish the glazing;
And he will be wakeful to make clean the furnace.


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contenido:
They shall not be sought for in the council of the people,
And in the assembly they shall not mount on high;
They shall not sit on the seat of the judge,
And they shall not understand the covenant of judgement:
Neither shall they declare instruction and judgement;
And where parables are they shall not be found.


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But they will maintain the fabric of the  world;
And in the handiwork of their craft is their prayer.


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contenido:
Not so he that has applied his soul,
And meditates in the law of the Most High;
He will seek out the wisdom of all the ancients,
And will be occupied in prophecies.


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contenido:
He will keep the discourse of the men of renown,
And will enter in amidst the subtleties of parables.


book: Sir
contenido:
He will serve amongst great men,
And appear before him that rules:
He will travel through the land of strange nations;
For he has tried good things and evil amongst men.


book: Sir
contenido:
He will apply his heart to return early to the Lord that made him,
And will make supplication before the Most High,
And will open his mouth in prayer,
And will make supplication for his sins.


book: Sir
contenido:
If the great Lord will,
He shall be filled with the spirit of understanding:
He shall pour forth the words of his wisdom,
And in prayer give thanks to the Lord.


book: Sir
contenido:
He shall show forth the instruction which he has been taught,
And shall glory in the law of the covenant of the Lord.


book: Sir
contenido:
Many shall commend his understanding;
And so long as the world endures, it shall not be blotted out:
His memorial shall not depart,
And his name shall live from generation to generation.


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And give you° a sweet savour as frankincense,
And put forth flowers as a lily,
Spread abroad a sweet smell, and sing a song of praise;
Bless you° the Lord for all his works.


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contenido:
Magnify his name,
And give utterance to his praise
With the songs of your lips, and with harps;
And thus shall you° say when you° utterhis praise:


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contenido:
All the works of the Lord are exceedingly good,
And every command shall beaccomplished in his season.


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contenido:
None can say, What is this? wherefore is that?
For in his season they shall all be sought out.
At his word the waters stood as a heap,
And the receptacles of waters at the word of his mouth.


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The chief of all things necessary for the life of man
Are water, and fire, and iron, and salt,
And flour of wheat, and honey, and milk,
The blood of the grape, and oil, and clothing.


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contenido:
There be winds that are created for vengeance,
And in their fury lay on their scourges heavily;
In the time of consummation they pour out their strength,
And shall appease the wrath of him that made them.


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contenido:
They shall rejoice in his commandment,
And shall be made ready upon earth, when need is;
And in their seasons they shall not transgresshis word.


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contenido:
Great travail is created for every man,
And a heavy yoke is upon the sons of Adam,
From the day of their coming forth from their mother’s womb,
Until the day for their burial in the mother of all things.


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contenido:
The expectation of things to come, and the day of death,
Trouble their thoughts, andcause fear of heart;


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contenido:
There is wrath, and jealousy, and trouble, and disquiet,
And fear of death, and anger, and strife;
And in the time of rest upon his bed
His night sleep does change his knowledge.


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A little or nothing is his resting,
And afterward in his sleep, as in a day of keeping watch,
He is troubled in the vision of his heart,
As one that has escaped from the front of battle.


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All things that are of the earth turn to the earth again:
Andall things that are of the waters return into the sea.


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The goods of the unjust shall be dried up like a river,
And like a great thunder in rain shall go off in noise.


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The children of the ungodly shall not put forth many branches;
Andare as unclean roots upon a sheer rock.


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The life of one that labours, and is content, shall be made sweet;
And he that finds a treasure is above both.


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Children and the building of a city establish aman’s name;
And a blameless wife is counted above both.


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Riches and strength will lift up the heart;
And the fear of the Lord is above both:
There is nothing lacking in the fear of the Lord,
And there is no need to seek help therein.


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A man that looks to the table of another,
His life is not to be counted for a life;
He will pollute his soul with another man’s meats:
But a man wise and well-instructed will beware thereof.


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O death, how bitter is the remembrance of you to a man that is at peace in his possessions,
To the man that has nothing to distract him, and has prosperity in all things,
And that still has strength to receive meat!


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O death, acceptable is your sentence to a man that is needy, and that fails in strength,
That is in extreme old age, and is distracted about all things,
And is perverse, and has lost patience!


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Don’t be afraid of the sentence of death;
Remember those who have been before you, and that come after:
This is the sentence from the Lord over all flesh.


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And why do you refuse, when it is the good pleasure of the Most High?
Whether it be ten, or a hundred, or a thousand years,
There is no inquisition of life in  the grave.


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The inheritance of sinners’ children shall perish,
And with their posterity shall be a perpetual reproach.


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All things that are of the earth shall go back to the earth:
So the ungodly shall go from a curse to perdition.


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My children, keep instruction in peace:
But wisdom that is hid, and a treasure that is not seen,
What profit is in them both?


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Wherefore show reverence to my word:
For it is not good to retain every kind of shame;
And not all things are approved by all in good faith.


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Of an offence before a judge and ruler;
Of iniquity before the congregation and the people;
Of unjust dealing before a partner and friend;


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And of theft in regard of the place where you sojourn,
And in regard of the truth of God and his covenant;
And of leaning with your elbow at meat;
And of scurrility in the matter of giving and taking;


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And of turning away  your face from a kinsman;
Of taking away a portion or a gift;
And of gazing upon a woman that has a husband;


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Of being over busy with his maid; and come not near her bed;
Of upbraiding speeches before friends;
And after you have given, upbraid not;


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Of indifferent selling of merchants;
And of much correction of children;
And of making the side of an evil servant to bleed.


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Whatsoever you handest over, let it be by number and weight;
And in giving and receiving let all be in writing.


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Be not ashamed to instruct the unwise and foolish,
And one of extreme old age that contends with those that are young;
And so shall you be well instructed indeed,
And approved in the sight of every man living.


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A daughter is a secret cause of wakefulness to a father;
And the care for her puts away sleep;
In her youth, lest she pass the flower of her age;
And when she is married, lest she should be hated:


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In her virginity, lest she should be defiled
And be with child in her father’s house;
And when she has a husband, lest she should transgress;
And when she is married, lest she should be barren.


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Keep a strict watch over a headstrong daughter,
Lest she make you  a laughing stock to your enemies,
A byword in the city and  notorious amongst the people,
And shame you before the multitude.


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Better is the wickedness of a man than a pleasant-dealing woman,
And a woman which puts you to shameful reproach.


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I will make mention now of the works of the Lord,
And will declare the things that I have seen:
In the words of the Lord are his works.


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The Lord has not given power to the saints to declare all his marvellous works;
Which the Almighty Lord firmly settled,
That whatever is might be established in his glory.


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He searches out the deep, and the heart,
And he has understanding of their cunning plans:
For the Most High knows all knowledge,
And he looks into the  signs of the world,


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Declaring the things that are past, and the things that shall be,
And revealing the traces of hidden things.


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The mighty works of his wisdom he has ordered,
Who is from everlasting to everlasting:
Nothing has been added to them, nor diminished from them;
And he had no need of any counsellor.


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The pride of the height is the firmament  in its clearness,
The appearance of heaven, in the spectacle of its glory.


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The sun when he appears, bringing tidings as he goes forth,
Is a marvellous instrument, the work of the Most High:


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A man blowing a furnace is in works of heat,
But the sun three times more, burning up the mountains:
Breathing out fiery vapours,
And sending forth bright beams, he dims the eyes.


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The month is called after her name,
Increasing wonderfully in her changing;
An instrument of the army on high,
Shining forth in the firmament of heaven;


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The beauty of heaven, the glory of the stars,
An ornament giving light in the highest places of the Lord.


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At the word of the Holy One they will stand in  due order,
And they will not faint in their watches.


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It encircles the heaven round about with a circle of glory;
The hands of the Most High have stretched it.


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By his commandment he makes the snow to fall apace,
And sends swiftly the lightnings of his judgement.


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The voice of his thunder makes the earth to travail;
So does the northern storm and the whirlwind:
As birds flying down he sprinkles the snow;
And as the lighting of the locust is the falling down thereof:


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The eye will marvel at the beauty of its whiteness,
And the heart will be astonished at the raining of it.


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The hoar frost also he pours on the earth as salt;
And when it is congealed, it isas points of thorns.


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The cold north wind shall blow,
And the ice shall be congealed on the water:
It shall lodge upon every gathering together of water,
And the water shall put on as it were a breastplate.


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A mist coming speedily is the healing of all things;
A dew coming after heat shall bring cheerfulness.


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Therein be also those strange and wondrous works,
Variety of all that has life, the  race of sea-monsters.


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When you° glorify the Lord, exalt him as much as you° can;
For even yet he will exceed:
And when you° exalt him, put forth your full strength:
Be not weary; for you° will never attain.


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Such as did bear rule in their kingdoms,
And were men renowned for their power,
Giving counsel by their understanding,
Such as have brought tidings in prophecies:


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Leaders of the people by their counsels,
And by their understandingmen of learning for the people;
Wisewere their words in their instruction:


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And some there be, which have no memorial;
Who are perished as though they had not been,
And are become as though they had not been born;
And their children after them.


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With their seed shall remain continually a good inheritance;
Their childrenare  within the covenants.


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Noah was found perfectand righteous;
In the season of wrath he was taken in exchangefor the world;
Therefore was there left a remnant to the earth,
When the flood came.


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Who kept the law of the Most High,
And was taken into covenant with him:
In his flesh he established the covenant;
And when he was proved, he was found faithful.


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Therefore he assured him by an oath,
That the nations should be blessed in his seed;
That he would multiply him as the dust of the earth,
And exalt his seed as the stars,
And cause them to inherit from sea to sea,
And from the River to the utmost part of the earth.


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In Isaac also did he establish likewise, for Abraham his father’s sake,
The blessing of all men, and the covenant:


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And he made it rest upon the head of Jacob;
He acknowledged him in his blessings,
And gave to him by inheritance,
And divided his portions;
Amongst twelve tribes did he part them.


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And he brought out of him a man of mercy,
Which found favour in the sight of all flesh;
A man beloved of God and men, even Moses,
Whose memorial is blessed.


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By his words he caused the wonders to cease;
He glorified him in the sight of kings;
He gave him commandment for his people,
And showed him part of his glory.


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He made him to hear his voice,
And led him into the thick darkness,
And gave him commandments face to face,
Even the law of life and knowledge,
That he might teach Jacob the covenant,
And Israel his judgements.


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He established for him an everlasting covenant,
And gave him the priesthood of the people;
He  beautified him with comely ornaments,
And girded him about with a robe of glory.


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He clothed him with the perfection of exultation;
And strengthened him with apparel of  honour,
The linen trousers, the long robe, and the ephod.


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And he compassed him with pomegranates of gold,
And with many bells round about,
To send forth a sound as he went,
To make a sound that might be heard in the temple,
For a memorial to the children of his people;


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With a holy garment, with gold and blue and purple, the work of the embroiderer,
With an oracle of judgement,even with the Urim and Thummim;


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With twisted scarlet, the work of the craftsman;
With precious stones graven like a signet, in a setting of gold, the work of the jeweller,
For a memorial engraved in writing, after the number of the tribes of Israel;


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With a crown of gold upon the mitre,  having graven on it, as on a signet, HOLINESS,
An ornament of honour, a work of might,
The desires of the eyes, goodly and beautiful.


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Before him there never have been any such;
No stranger put them on, but his sons only, and his offspring perpertually.


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Moses  consecrated him,
And anointed him with holy oil:
It was to him for an everlasting covenant,
And to his seed, all the days of heaven,
To minister to him, and to execute also the priest’s office,
And bless his people in his name.


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He chose him out of all living
To offer sacrifice to the Lord,
Incense, and a sweet savour, for a memorial,
To make reconciliation for your people.


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He gave to him in his commandments,
Yes, authority in the covenants of judgements,
To teach Jacob the testimonies,
And to enlighten Israel in his law.


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Strangers gathered themselves together against him,
And envied him in the wilderness,
Even Dathan and Abiram with their company,
And the congregation of Korah, with wrath and anger.


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The Lord saw it, and it displeased him;
And in the wrath of his anger they were destroyed:
He did wonders upon them,
To consume them with flaming fire.


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And he added glory to Aaron,
And gave him a heritage:
He divided to him the first fruits of the increase;
And first did he prepare bread in abundance:


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However in the land of the people he shall have no inheritance,
And he has no portion amongst the people:
For he himself is your portionand inheritance.


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And Phinehas the son of Eleazar is the third in glory,
In that he was zealous in the fear of the Lord,
And stood fast in the good forwardness of his soul when the people turned away,
And he made reconciliation for Israel.


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Therefore was there a covenant of peace established for him,
That he should be leader of the  saints and of his people;
That he and his seed
Should have the dignity of the priesthood forever.


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Alsohe made a covenant with David the son of Jesse, of the tribe of Judah;
The inheritance of the king is his alone from son to son;
So the inheritance of Aaron is also to his seed.


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God give you wisdom in your heart
To judge his people in righteousness,
That their good things be not abolished,
Andthat their gloryendure for all their generations.


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Joshua the son of  Nun was valiant in war,
And was the successor of Moses in prophecies:
Who according to his name was made great
For the saving of  God’s elect,
To take vengeance of the enemies that rose up against them,
That he might give Israel their inheritance.


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How was he glorified in the lifting up his hands,
And in stretching out his sword against the cities!


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He called upon the Most Highand Mighty One,
When his foes pressed him round about;
And the great Lord heard him.


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With hailstones of mighty power
He caused war to break violently upon the nation,
And  in the going down he destroyed those who resisted;
That the nations might know his  armour,
How that he fought in the sight of the Lord;
For he followed after the Mighty One.


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Also in the time of Moses he did a work of mercy,
He and Caleb the son of Jephunneh,
In that they withstood the adversary,
Hindered the people from sin,
And stilled the murmuring of wickedness.


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And of six hundred thousand people on foot, they two alone were preserved
To bring them into the heritage,
Even into a land flowing with milk and honey.


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Also the Lord gave strength to Caleb,
And it remained with him to his old age;
So that he entered upon the height of the land,
And his seed obtained it for a heritage:


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Also the judges, every one by his name,
All whose hearts went not a whoring,
And who turned not away from the Lord,
May their memorial be blessed.


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May their bones flourish again out of their place,
And may the name of those who have been honoured be renewed upon their children.


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Samuel, the prophet of the Lord, beloved of his Lord,
Established a kingdom, and anointed princes over his people.


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By his faithfulness he was proved to be a prophet,
And by his words he was known to be faithful in vision.


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Also when his enemies pressed him round about
He called upon the Lord, the Mighty One,
With the offering of the sucking lamb.


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Also before the time of his  long sleep
He made protestations in the sight of the lord andhis anointed,
I have not taken any man’s goods, so much as a sandal:
And no man did accuse him.


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And after he fell asleep he prophesied,
And showed the king his end,
And lifted up his voice from the earth in prophecy,
To blot out the wickedness of the people.


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As is the fat when it is separated from the peace offering,
So was Davidseparated from the children of Israel.


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In his youth did he not kill a giant,
And take away reproach from the people,
When he lifted up his hand with a sling stone,
And beat down the boasting of Goliath?


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For he called upon the Most High Lord;
And he gave him strength in his right hand,
To kill a man mighty in war,
To exalt the horn of his people.


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So they glorified him forhis ten thousands,
And praised him for the blessings of the Lord,
In that there was given him a diadem of glory.


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For he destroyed the enemies on every side,
And brought to nothing the Philistines his adversaries,
Brake their horn in pieces to this day.


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In every work of his he gave thanks to the Holy One Most High with words of glory;
With his whole heart he sang praise,
And loved him that made him.


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He gave beauty to the feasts,
And set in order the seasons to perfection,
While they praised his holy name,
And the sanctuary sounded from early morning.


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The Lord took away his sins,
And exalted his horn forever;
And gave him a covenant of kings,
And a throne of glory in Israel.


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Solomon reigned in days of peace;
And to him God gave rest round about,
That he might set up a house for his name,
And prepare a sanctuary forever.


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For your songs and proverbs and parables,
And for your interpretations, the countries marvelled at you.


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By the name of the Lord God,
Which is called the God of Israel,
You did gather gold as tin,
And did multiply silver as lead.


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You did blemish your honour,
And profane your seed,
To bring wrath upon your children;
And I was grieved for your folly:


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But the Lord will never forsake his mercy;
And he will not destroy any of his works,
Nor blot out the posterity of his elect;
And the seed of him that loved him he will not take away;
And he gave a remnant to Jacob,
And to David a root out of him.


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Andso rested Solomon with his fathers;
And of his seed he left behind him Rehoboam,
Even the foolishness of the people, and one that lacked understanding,
Who made the people to revolt by his counsel.
Also Jeroboam the son of Nebat,
Who made Israel to sin,
And gave to Ephraim a way of sin.


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Who did raise up a dead man from death,
And from  the place of the dead, by the word of the Most High:


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Who was recorded for reproofs in their seasons,
To pacify anger, before it brake forth into wrath;
To turn the heart of the father to the son,
And to restore the tribes of Jacob.


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Blessed are those who saw you,
And those who have been beautified with love;
For we also shall surely live.


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Elijahit was, who was wrapped in a tempest:
And Elisha was filled with his spirit;
And inall his days he was not moved bythe fear of any ruler,
And no one brought him into subjection.


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For all this the people repented not,
And they departed not from their sins,
Till they were carried away as a plunder from their land,
And were scattered through all the earth;
And the people was left very few in number,
And a rulerwas left in the house of David.


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Hezekiah fortified his city,
And brought in  water into the midst of them:
He digged the sheer rock with iron,
And built up wells for waters.


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In his days Sennacherib came up,
And sent Rabshakeh, and departed;
And he lifted up his hand against Sion,
And boasted great things in his arrogance.


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And they called upon the Lord which is merciful,
Spreading forth their hands to him:
And the Holy One heard them speedily out of Heaven,
And delivered them by the hand of Isaiah.


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For Hezekiah did that which was pleasing to the Lord,
And was strong in the ways of David his father,
Which Isaiah the prophet commanded,
Who was great and faithful in his vision.


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He saw by an excellent spirit what should come to pass at the last;
And he comforted those who mourned in Sion.


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contenido:
The memorial of Josiah is like the composition of incense
Prepared by the work of the apothecary:
It shall be sweet as honey in every mouth,
And as music at a banquet of wine.


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He behaved himself uprightly in the conversion of the people,
And took away the abominations of iniquity.


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Except David and Hezekiah and Josiah,
All committed trespass:
For they forsook the law of the Most High;
The kings of Judah failed.


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They set on fire the chosen city of the sanctuary,
And made her streets desolate,as it was written by the hand of Jeremiah.


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For they entreated him evil;
And yet he was sanctified in the womb to be a prophet,
To root out, and to afflict, and to destroy;
And in like manner to build and to plant.


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For truly he remembered the enemies in  storm,
And to do good to those who directed their ways aright.


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contenido:
Also of the twelve prophets
May the bones flourish again out of their place.
And he comforted Jacob,
And delivered them by confidence of hope.


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So was Jesus the son of Josedek:
Who in their days built the house,
And exalted a  people holy to the Lord,
Prepared for everlasting glory.


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contenido:
Also of Nehemiah the memorial is great;
Who raised up for us the walls that were fallen,
And set up the gates and bars,
And raised up our homes again.


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Neither was there a man born like to Joseph,
A governor of his kindred, a stay of the people:
Yes, his bones were visited.


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It was Simon, the son of Onias, the  great priest,
Who in his life repaired the house,
And in his days strengthened the temple:


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And by him was built from the foundation the height of the doublewall,
The lofty underworks of the inclosure of the temple:


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contenido:
It was he that took thought for his people that they should not fall,
And fortified the city  against besieging:


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contenido:
As the sun shining forth upon the temple of the Most High,
And as the rainbow giving light in clouds of glory:


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contenido:
As the flower of roses in the days of newfruits,
As lilies at the water spring,
As the shoot of the frankincense tree in the time of summer:


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contenido:
As fire and incense in the censer,
As a vessel all of beaten gold
Adorned with all manner of precious stones:


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contenido:
When he took up the robe of glory,
And put on the perfection of exultation,
In the ascent of the holy altar,
He made glorious the precinct of the sanctuary.


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And when he received the portions out of the priests’ hands,
Himself also standing by the hearth of the altar,
His kindred as a garland round about him,
He was as a young cedar in Libanus;
And as stems of palm trees compassed they him round about,


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And all the sons of Aaron in their glory,
And the Lord’s offering in their hands, before all the congregation of Israel.


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contenido:
And finishing the service at the altars,
That he might adorn the offering of the Most High, the Almighty,


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He stretched out his hand to the  cup,
And poured out the cup of the grape;
He poured out at the foot of the altar
A sweet smelling savour to the Most High, the King of all.


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contenido:
Then shouted the sons of Aaron,
They sounded the trumpets of beaten work,
They made a great noise to be heard,
For a remembrance before the Most High.


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contenido:
Then all the people together hurried,
And fell down upon the earth on their faces
To worship their Lord, the Almighty, God Most High.


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contenido:
And the people implored the Lord Most High,
In prayer before him that is merciful.
Till the  worship of the Lord should be ended;
And so they accomplished his service.


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contenido:
Then he went down, and lifted up his hands
Over the whole congregation of the children of Israel,
To give blessing to the Lord with his lips,
And to glory in his name.


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contenido:
And now bless you° the God of all,
Which everywhere does great things,
Which exalts our days from the womb,
And deals with us according to his mercy.


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contenido:
May he grant us joyfulness of heart,
And that peace may be in our days in Israel for the days of eternity:


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contenido:
They that sit upon the mountain of  Samaria,and the Philistines,
And that foolish people that dwells in Sichem.


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contenido:
I have  written in this book the instruction of understanding and knowledge,
I Jesus, the son of Sirach Eleazar, of Jerusalem,
Who out of his heart poured forth wisdom.


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Blessed is he that shall be exercised in these things;
And he that lays them up in his heart shall become wise.


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contenido:
I will give thanks to you, O Lord, O King,
And will praise you, O God my Saviour:
I do give thanks to your name:


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For you were my protector and helper,
And did deliver my body out of destruction,
And out of the snare of a slanderous tongue,
From lips that forge lies,
And was my helper before those who stood by;


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And did deliver me, according to the abundance of your mercy, andgreatness of your name,
From the gnashingsof teeth ready to devour,
Out of the hand of such as sought my life,
Out of the manifold afflictions which I had;


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contenido:
The slander of an unrighteous tongue to the king.
My soul drew near even to death,
And my life was near to  the grave beneath.


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contenido:
They compassed me on every side,
And there was none to helpme.
I was looking for the help of men,
And it was not.


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And I remembered your mercy, O Lord,
And your working which has been from everlasting,
How you deliver those who wait for you,
And save them out of the hand of the enemies.


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I called upon the Lord, the Father of my Lord,
That he would not forsake me in the days of affliction,
In the time when there was no help against the proud.


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I will praise your name continually,
And will sing praise with thanksgiving;
And my supplication was heard:


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For you saved me from destruction,
And delivered me from the evil time:
Therefore I will give thanks and praise to you,
And bless the name of the Lord.


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Fromher flower as from the ripening grape my heart delighted in her:
My foot trod in uprightness,
From my youth I tracked her out.


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For I purposed to practise her,
And I was zealous for that which is good;
And I shall never be put to shame.


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My soul has wrestled in her,
And in my doing I was exact:
I spread forth my hands to the heaven above,
And bewailed my ignorances of her.


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I set my soul aright to her,
And in pureness I found her.
I got me a heartjoined with her from the beginning:
Therefore shall I not be forsaken.


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These are the words of the book, which Baruch the son of Nerias, the son of Maaseas, the son of Sedekias, the son of Asadias, the son of Helkias, wrote in Babylon,


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in the fifth year,and in the seventh day of the month, what time as the Chaldeans took Jerusalem, and burnt it with fire.


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And Baruch did read the words of this book in the hearing of Jechonias the son of Joakim king of Judah, and in the hearing of all the people that came tohear the book,


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and in the hearing of the mighty men, and of the kings’ sons, and in the hearing of the elders, and in the hearing of all the people, from the least to the greatest, even of all those who lived at Babylon by the river Sud.


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and they sentit to Jerusalem to Joakim thehigh priest, the son of Helkias, the son of Salom, and to the priests, and to all the people which were found with him at Jerusalem,


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at the same time when he took the vessels of the house of the Lord, that had been carried out of the temple, to returnthem into the land of Judah, the tenth day ofthe month Sivan,namely, silver vessels, which Sedekias the son of Josias king of Judah had made,


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after Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon had carried away Jechonias, and the princes, and the captives, and the mighty men, and the people of the land, from Jerusalem, and brought them to Babylon.


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And they said, Behold, we have sent you money; buy you therefore with the money burnt offerings, and sin offerings, and incense, and prepare an oblation, and offer upon the altar of the Lord our God;


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and pray for the life of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and for the life of Baltasar his son, that their days may be  as the days of heaven above the earth:


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and the Lord will give us strength, and lighten our eyes, and we shall live under the shadow of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and under the shadow of Baltasar his son, and we shall serve them many days, and find favour in their sight.


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Pray for us also to the Lord our God, for we have sinned against the Lord our God; and to this day the wrath of the Lord and his indignation is not turned from us.


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And you° shall read this book which we have sent to you, to make confession in the house of the Lord, upon the day of the feast and on the days of the solemn assembly.


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And you° shall say, To the Lord our Godbelongs righteousness, but to us confusion of face, as at this day, to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,


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and disobeyed him, and have not listened to the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in the commandments of the Lord that he has set before us:


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since the day that the Lord brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt, to this present day, we have been disobedient to the Lord our God, and we have dealt unadvisedly in not listening to his voice.


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Wherefore the plagues clave to us, and the curse, which the Lord commanded Moses his servantto pronounce in the day that he brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt, to give us a land that flows with milk and honey, as at this day.


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Nevertheless we didn’t listen to the voice of the Lord our God, according to all the words of the prophets, whom he sent to us:


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but we walked every man in the imagination of his own wicked heart, to serve strange gods, and to do that which is evil in the sight of the Lord our God.


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Therefore the Lord has made good his word, which he pronounced against us, and against our judges that judged Israel, and against our kings, and against our princes, and against the men of Israel and Judah,


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to bring upon us great plagues, such as never happened under the whole heaven,  as it came to pass in Jerusalem, according to the things that are written in the law of Moses;


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Moreover he has given them to be in subjection to all the kingdoms that are round about us, to be a reproach and a desolation amongst all the people round about, where the Lord has scattered them.


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Thus were they cast down, and not exalted, because we sinned against the Lord our God, in not listening to his voice.


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To the Lord our Godbelongs righteousness: but to us and to our fathers confusion of face, as at this day.


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Yet have we not entreated the favour of the Lord, in turning every one from the thoughts of his wicked heart.


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Therefore has the Lord kept watch over the plagues, and the Lord has broughtthem upon us; for the Lord is righteous in all his works which he has commanded us.


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Yet we have not listened to his voice, to walk in the commandments of the Lord that he has set before us.


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And now, O Lord, you God of Israel, that have brought your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with signs, and with wonders, and with great power, and with a high arm, and have gotten yourself a name, as at this day:


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O Lord our God, we have sinned, we have done ungodly, we have dealt unrighteously in all your ordinances.


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Let your wrath turn from us: for we are but a few left amongst the heathen, where you have scattered us.


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Hear our prayer, O Lord, and our petition, and deliver us for your own sake, and give us favour in the sight of them which have led us away captive:


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that all the earth may know that you are the Lord our God, because Israel and his posterity is called by your name.


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open your eyes, and behold: for the dead that are in  the grave, whose breath is taken from their bodies, will give to the Lord neither glory nor righteousness:


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but the soul that is greatly vexed, which goes stooping and feeble, and the eyes that fail, and the hungry soul, will give you glory and righteousness, O Lord.


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For we do not present our supplication before you, O Lord our God, for the righteousness of our fathers, and of our kings.


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For you have sent your wrath and your indignation upon us, as you have spoken by your servants the prophets,saying,


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The Lord says, Bow your shoulders to serve the king of Babylon, and remain in the land that I gave to your fathers.


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I will cause to cease out of the cities of Judah, and from without Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: and the whole land shall be desolate without inhabitant.


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But we would not listen to your voice, to serve the king of Babylon: therefore have you made good your words that you spoke by your servants the prophets,namely, that the bones of our kings, and the bones of our fathers, should be taken out of their places.


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And, behold, they are cast out to the heat by day, and to the frost by night, and they died in great miseries by famine, by sword, and by  pestilence.


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And the house which is called by your name have you laidwaste, as at this day, for the wickedness of the house of Israel and the house of Judah.


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Yet, O Lord our God, you have dealt with us after all your kindness, and according to all that great mercy of your,


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as you spoke by your servant Moses in the day when you did command him to write your law before the children of Israel, saying,


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If you° will not hear my voice, surely this very great multitude shall be turned into a smallnumber amongst the nations, where I will scatter them.


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For I know that they will not hear me, because it is a stiff-necked people: but in the land of their captivity they shall take it to heart,


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and shall return from their stiff neck, and from their wicked deeds: for they shall remember the way of their fathers, which sinned before the Lord.


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And I will bring them again into the land which I sware to their fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, and they shall be lords of it: and I will increase them, and they shall not be diminished.


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And I will make an everlasting covenant with them to be their God, and they shall be my people: and I will no more remove my people of Israel out of the land that I have given them.


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Hear, O Lord, and have mercy; for you are a merciful God: yes, have mercy upon us, because we have sinned before you.


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O Lord Almighty, you God of Israel, hear now the prayer of  the dead Israelites, and of the children of them which were sinners before you, that didn’t listen to the voice of you their God: for the which cause these plagues clave to us.


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For for this cause you have put your fear in our hearts,  to the intent that we should call upon your name: and we will praise you in our captivity, for we have  called to mind all the iniquity of our fathers, that sinned before you.


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Behold, we are yet this day in our captivity, where you have scattered us, for a reproach and a curse, and to be subject to penalty, according to all the iniquities of our fathers, which departed from the Lord our God.


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How is it, O Israel, that you are in your enemies’ land, that you have become old in a strange country, that you are defiled with the dead,


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Learn where is  wisdom, where is strength, where is understanding; that you may know also where is length of days, and life, where is the light of the eyes, and peace.


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those who had their pastime with the fowls of the air, and those who hoarded up silver and gold, wherein men trust; and of whose getting there is no end?


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Younger men have seen the light, and lived upon the earth: but the way of knowledge have they not known,


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neither understood they the paths thereof: neither have their children embraced it: they are far off from  their way.


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The sons also of Agar that seek understanding, which are in the land, the merchants of Merran and Teman, and the authors of fables, and the searchers out of understanding; none of these have known the way of wisdom, or remembered her paths.


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But he that knows all things knows her, he found her out with his understanding: he that prepared the earth for evermore has filled it with four-footed beasts:


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and the stars shined in their watches, and were glad: when he called them, they said, Here we be; they shined with gladness to him that made them.


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He has found out all the way of knowledge, and has given it to Jacob his servant, and to Israel that is beloved of him.


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This is the book of the commandments of God, and the law that endures forever: all those who hold it fastare appointed to life; but such as leave it shall die.


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Turn you, O Jacob, and take hold of it: walk towards her shining in the presence of the light thereof.


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You° were sold to the nations,but not for destruction: because you° moved God to wrath, you° were delivered to your adversaries.


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For she saw the wrath that is come upon you from God, and said, Listen, you°women that dwell about Sion: for God has brought upon me great mourning;


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for I have seen the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting has brought upon them.


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Let no man rejoice over me, a widow, and forsaken of many: for the sins of my children am I left desolate; because they turned away from the law of God,


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and had no regard to his statutes, neither walked they in the ways of God’s commandments, nor trod in the paths of discipline in his righteousness.


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Let those who dwell about Sion come, and remember you° the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting has brought upon them.


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For he has brought a nation upon them from far, a shameless nation, and of a strange language,  who neither reverenced old man, nor pitied child.


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And they have carried away the dear beloved sons of the widow, and left her that was alone desolate of her daughters.


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I have put off the garment of peace, and put upon me the sackcloth of my petition: I will cry to the Everlasting as long as I live.


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Be of good cheer, O my children, cry to God, and he shall deliver you from the power and hand of the enemies.


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For I have trusted in the Everlasting, that he will save you; and joy is come to me from the Holy One, because of the mercy which shall soon come to you  from the Everlasting your Saviour.


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For I sent you out with mourning and weeping: but God will give you to me again with joy and gladness forever.


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For like as now those who dwell about Sion have seen your captivity: so shall they see shortly your salvation from  our God, which shall come upon you with great glory, and brightness of the Everlasting.


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My children, suffer patiently the wrath that is come upon you from God: for your enemy has persecuted you; but shortly you shall see his destruction, and shall tread upon their necks.


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Be of good cheer, O my children, and cry to God: for you° shall be remembered of him that has broughtthese things upon you.


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For he that brought these plagues upon you shall bring you everlasting joy again with your salvation.


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For as she rejoiced at your fall, and was glad of your ruin: so shall she be grieved for her own desolation.


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And I will take away her exultation in her great multitude, and her boasting shall be turned into mourning.


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For fire shall come upon her from the Everlasting, long to endure; and she shall be inhabited of  devils for a great time.


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Behold, your sons come, whom you sent away, they come gathered together from the east to the west at the word of the Holy One, rejoicing in the glory of God.


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Put off, O Jerusalem, the garment of your mourning and affliction, and put on the beauty of the glory thatcomes from God forever.


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Cast about you the robe of the righteousness whichcomes from God; set a diadem on your head of the glory of the Everlasting.


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For your name shall be called of God forever The peace of righteousness, and The glory of godliness.


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Arise, O Jerusalem, and stand upon the height, and look about you towards the east, and behold your children gathered from the going down of the sun to the rising thereof at the word of the Holy One, rejoicing that God has remembered them.


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For they went from you on foot, being led away of their enemies: but God brings them in to you borne on high with glory,  ason a royal throne.


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For God has appointed that every high mountain, and the everlasting hills, should be made low, and the valleys filled up, to make plain the ground, that Israel may go safely in the glory of God.


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Moreover the woods and every sweet smelling tree have overshadowed Israel by the commandment of God.


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For God shall lead Israel with joy in the light of his glory with the mercy and righteousness that comes from him.


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A copy of an letter, which Jeremy sent to them which were to be led captives into Babylon by the king of the Babylonians, to certify them, as it was commanded him of God.


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Because of the sins which you° have committed before God, you° shall be led away captives to Babylon by Nabuchodonosor king of the Babylonians.


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So when you° come to Babylon, you° shall remain there many years, and for a long season, even for seven generations: and after that I will bring you out peaceably from thence.


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But now shall you° see in Babylon gods of silver, and of gold, and of wood, borne upon shoulders, which cause the nations to fear.


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Beware therefore that you° in no wise become like to the strangers, neither let fear take hold upon you because of them, when you° see the multitude before them and behind them, worshipping them.


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For their tongue is polished by the workman, and they themselves are overlaid with gold and with silver; yet are they but false, and can’t speak.


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And taking gold, as it were for a virgin that loves to be happy, they make crowns for the heads of their gods:


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and sometimes also the priests convey from their gods gold and silver, and bestow it upon themselves;


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and will even give thereof to the common prostitutes: and they deck them as men with garments,even the gods of silver, and gods of gold, and of wood.


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Yet can’t these gods save themselves from rust and moths, though they be covered with purple raiment.


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And he that can’t put to death one that offends against him holds a sceptre, as though he were judge of a country.


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For like as a vessel that a man uses is nothing worth when it is broken; even so it is with their gods: when they be set up in the temples their eyes be full of dust through the feet of those who come in.


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And as the courts are made sure on every side upon him that offends the king, as being committed to suffer death;even so the priests make fast their temples with doors, with locks, and bars, lest they be carried off by robbers.


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They are as one of the beams of the temple; and men say their hearts are eaten out, when things creeping out of the earth devour both them and their raiment: they feel it not


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Notwithstanding the gold wherewith they are beset to make them beautiful, except one wipe off the rust, they will not shine: for not even when they were molten did they feel it.


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Having no feet, they are borne upon shoulders, whereby they declare to men that they be nothing worth.


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They also that serve them are ashamed: for if they fall to the ground at any time, they can’t rise up again of themselves: neither, if they are bowed down, can they make themselves straight: but the offerings are set before them, as if they were dead men.


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And the things that are sacrificed to them, their priests sell and spend; and in like manner their wives also lay up part thereof in salt; but to the poor and to the impotent they will give nothing thereof.


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The menstruous woman and the woman in childbed touch their sacrifices: knowing therefore by these things that they are no gods, fear them not.


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And in their temples the priests  sit on seats, having their clothes tore, and their heads and beards shaven, and nothing upon their heads.


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Whether it be evil that one does to them, or good, they are not able to recompense it: they can neither set up a king, nor put him down.


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In like manner, they can neither give riches nor money: though a man make a vow to them, and keep it not, they will never exact it.


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They are like the stones that behewn out of the mountain,these gods of wood, and that are overlaid with gold and with silver: those who minister to them shall be confounded.


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How should a man then think or say that they are gods, when even the Chaldeans themselves dishonour them?


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Who if they shall see one mute that can’t speak, they bring him, and entreat him to call upon Bel, as though he were able to understand.


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The women also with cords about them sit in the ways, burning bran for incense: but if any of them, drawn by some that passes by, lie with him, she reproaches her fellow, that she was not thought as worthy as herself, nor her cord broken.


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They are fashioned by carpenters and goldsmiths: they can be nothing else than the workmen will have them to be.


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And they themselves that fashioned them can never continue long; how then should the things that are fashioned by them?


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For when there comes any war or plague upon them, the priests consult with themselves, where they may be hidden with them.


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How then can’t men understand that they be no gods, which can neither save themselves from war, nor from plague?


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For seeing they be but of wood, and overlaid with gold and with silver, it shall be known hereafter that they are false:


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and it shall be manifest to all nations and kings that they are no gods, but the works of men’s hands, and that there is no work of God in them.


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Neither can they judge their own cause, nor  redress a wrong, being unable: for they are as crows between heaven and earth.


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For even when fire falls upon the house of gods of wood, or overlaid with gold or with silver, their priests will flee away, and escape, but they themselves shall be burnt apart like beams.


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Moreover they can’t withstand any king or enemies: how should a man then allow or think that they be gods?


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Neither are those gods of wood, and overlaid with silver or with gold, able to escape either from thieves or robbers.


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Whose gold, and silver, and garments wherewith they are clothed, they that are strong will take from them, and go away withal: neither shall they be able to help themselves.


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Therefore it is better to be a king that shows his manhood, or else a vessel in a house profitable for that whereof the owner shall have need, than such false gods; or even a door in a house, to keep the things safe that be therein, than such false gods; or a pillar of wood in a palace, than such false gods.


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Likewise also the lightning when it glitters is fair to see; and after the same manner the wind also blows in every country.


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And the fire sent from above to consume mountains and woods does as it is commanded: but these are to be likened to them neither in show nor power.


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Wherefore a man should neither think nor say that they are gods, seeing they are able neither to judge causes, nor to do good to men.


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neither can they show signs in the heavens amongst the nations, nor shine as the sun, nor give light as the moon.


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For as a scarecrow in a garden of cucumbers that keeps nothing, so are their gods of wood, and overlaid with gold and with silver.


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Likewise also their gods of wood, and overlaid with gold and with silver, are like to a white thorn in an orchard, that every bird sits upon; as also to a dead body, that is cast forth into the dark.


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And you° shall know them to be no gods by the  bright purple that rots upon them: And they themselves afterward shall be consumed, and shall be a reproach in the country.


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It came to pass, after that Alexander the Macedonian, the son of Philip, who came out of the land of Chittim, and struck Darius king of the Persians and Medes,it came to pass, after he had struck him, that he reigned in his stead, in former time, over  Greece.


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and went through to the ends of the earth, and took spoils of a multitude of nations. And the earth was quiet before him, and he was exalted, and his heart was lifted up,


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and he gathered together an exceedingly strong army, and ruled over countries and nations and principalities, and they became tributary to him.


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And he called his servants, which were honourable, which had been brought up with him from his youth, and he divided to them his kingdom, while he was yet alive.


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And they did all put diadems upon themselves after that he was dead, and so did their sons after them many years: and they multiplied evils in the earth.


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And there came forth out of them a sinful root, Antiochus Epiphanes, son of Antiochus the king, who had been a hostage at Rome, and he reigned in  the hundred and thirty and seventh year of the kingdom of the Greeks.


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In those days came there forth out of Israel transgressors of the law, and persuaded many, saying, let’s go and make a covenant with the  Gentiles that are round about us; for since we were parted from them many evils have befallen us.


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And certain of the people were forwardherein and went to the king, and he gave them licence to do after the ordinances of the  Gentiles.


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and they made themselves uncircumcised, and forsook the holy covenant, and joined themselves to the  Gentiles, and sold themselves to do evil.


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And the kingdom was well ordered in the sight of Antiochus, and he thought to reign over Egypt, that he might reign over the two kingdoms.


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And he entered into Egypt with a  great multitude, with chariots, and with elephants, and with horsemen, and with a great  navy;


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and he made war against Ptolemy king of Egypt; and Ptolemy was put to shame before him, and fled; and many fell wounded to death.


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And Antiochus, after he had struck Egypt, returned in  the hundred and forty and third year, and went up against Israel and Jerusalem with a  great multitude,


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and entered presumptuously into the sanctuary, and took the golden altar, and the candlestick of the light, and all that pertained thereto,


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and the table of the show bread, and the cups to pour withal, and the bowls, and the golden censers, and the veil, and the crowns, and the adorning of gold which was on the face of the temple, and he peeled it all off.


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And he took the silver and the gold and the precious vessels; and he took the hidden treasures which he found.


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And when he had taken all, he went away into his own land, and he made a great slaughter, and spoke very presumptuously.


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and the rulers and elders groaned, the virgins and young men were made feeble, and the beauty of the women was changed.


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And the land was moved for the inhabitants thereof, and all the house of Jacob was clothed with shame.


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And  after  two full years the king sent a chief collector of tribute to the cities of Judah, and he came to Jerusalem with a  great multitude.


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And he spoke words of peace to them in subtlety, and they gave him credence: and he fell upon the city suddenly, and struck it very sore, and destroyed much people out of Israel.


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And he took the spoils of the city, and set it on fire, and pulled down the houses thereof and the walls thereof on every side.


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And they built the city of David with a great and strong wall, with strong towers, and it became to them a citadel.


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And they put there a sinful nation, transgressors of the law, and they strengthened themselves therein.


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And they stored up arms and food, and gathering together the spoils of Jerusalem, they laid them up there, and they became a sore snare:


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and it became a place to lie in wait in against the sanctuary, and an evil adversary to Israel continually.


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And the inhabitants of Jerusalem fled because of them; and she became a habitation of strangers, and she became strange to those who were born in her, and her children forsook her.


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Her sanctuary was laid waste like a wilderness,  her feasts were turned into mourning, her Sabbaths into reproach, her honour into contempt.


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According to her glory, so was her dishonour multiplied, and her high estate was turned into mourning.


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and that each should forsake his own laws. And all the nations agreed according to the word of the king;


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And the king sent letters by the hand of messengers to Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, that they should follow laws strange to the land,


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and should forbid whole burnt offerings and sacrifice and drink offerings in the sanctuary; and should profane the Sabbaths and feasts,


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that they should build altars, and temples, and shrines for idols, and should sacrifice swine’s flesh and unclean beasts:


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and that they should leave their sons uncircumcised, that they should make their souls abominable with all manner of uncleanness and profanation;


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According to all these words wrote he to his whole kingdom; and he appointed overseers over all the people, and he commanded the cities of Judah to sacrifice, city by city.


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And from the people were gathered together to them many, every one that had forsaken the law; and they did evil things in the land;


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And on the fifteenth day of Chislev, in  the hundred and forty and fifth year, they built an abomination of desolation upon the  altar, and in the cities of Judah on every side they builtidol  altars.


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And wherever was found with any a book of the covenant, and if any consented to the law, the king’s sentence delivered him to death.


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And they hanged their babes about their necks, anddestroyed their houses, and those who had circumcised them.


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And  they chose to die, that they might not be defiled with the meats, and that they might not profane the holy covenant: and they died.


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In those days rose up Mattathias the son of John, the son of Simeon, a priest of the sons of Joarib, from Jerusalem; and he lived at Modin.


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and he said,
Woe is me! wherefore was I born to see the destruction of my people, and the destruction of the holy city, and to dwell there, when it was given into the hand of the enemy, the sanctuary into the hand of aliens?


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her vessels of glory are carried away into captivity, her infants are slain in her streets, her young men with the sword of the enemy.


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and, behold, our holy things and our beauty and our glory are laid waste, and the Gentiles have profaned them.


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And the king’s officers answered and spoke to Mattathias, saying, You are a ruler and an honourable and great man in this city, and strengthened with sons and kindred:


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now therefore come you first and do the commandment of the king, as all the nations have done, and the men of Judah, and those who remain in Jerusalem: and you and your house shall be in the number of the king’s  Friends, and you and your sons shall be honoured with silver and gold and many gifts.


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And Mattathias answered and said with a loud voice, If all the nations that are in the house of the king’s dominion listen to him, to fall away each one from the worship of his fathers, and have made choice to follow his commandments,


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We will not listen to the king’s words, to go aside from our worship, on the right hand, or on the left.


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And when he had left speaking these words, there came a Jew in the sight of all to sacrifice on the altar which was at Modin, according to the king’s commandment.


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And Mattathias saw it, and his zeal was kindled, and his reins trembled, and he showed forth his wrath according to judgement, and ran, and killed him upon the altar.


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And the king’s officer, who compelled men to sacrifice, he killed at that time, and pulled down the altar.


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And Mattathias cried out in the city with a loud voice, saying, Whosoever is zealous for the law, and maintains the covenant, let him come forth after me.


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And it was told the king’s officers, and the forces that were in Jerusalem, the city of David, that certain men, who had broken the king’s commandment, were gone down into the secret places in the wilderness;


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and many pursued after them, and having overtaken them, they encamped against them, and set the battle in array against them on the Sabbath day.


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And they said to them, Thus far. Come forth, and do according to the word of the king, and you° shall live.


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And they said, We will not come forth, neither will we do the word of the king, to profane the Sabbath day.


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saying, Let us die all in our innocency: heaven and earth witness over us, that you° put us to death without trial.


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And they rose up against them in battle on the Sabbath, and they died, they and their wives and their children, and their cattle, to the number of a thousand  souls.


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And one said to another, If we all do as our kindred have done, and fight not against the Gentiles for our lives and our ordinances, they will now quickly destroy us from off the earth.


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And they took counsel on that day, saying, whoever shall come against us to battle on the Sabbath day, let’s fight against him, and we shall in no wise all die, as our kindred died in the secret places.


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Then were gathered together to them a company of  Hasidaeans, mighty men of Israel, every one that offered himself willingly for the law.


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And they mustered an army, and struck sinners in their anger, and lawless men in their wrath: and the rest fled to the Gentiles for safety.


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and they circumcised by force the children that were uncircumcised, as many as they found in the coasts of Israel.


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And they rescued the law out of the hand of the Gentiles, and out of the hand of the kings, neither  suffered they the sinner to triumph.


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And the days of Mattathias drew near that he should die, and he said to his sons,
Now have pride and rebuke gotten strength, and a season of overthrow, and wrath of indignation.


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And now, my children, be you° zealous for the law, and give your lives for the covenant of your fathers.


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And call to remembrance the deeds of our fathers which they did in their generations; and receive great glory and an everlasting name.


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Phinehas our father, for that he was zealous exceedingly, obtained the covenant of an everlasting priesthood.


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And thus consider you° from generation to generation, that none that put their trust in him shall lack for strength.


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To-day he shall be lifted up, and tomorrow he shall in no wise be found, because he is returned to his dust, and his thought is perished.


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And you°, my children, be strong, and show yourselves men in behalf of the law; for therein shall you° obtain glory.


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And, behold, Simon your brother, I know that he is a man of counsel; give ear to him always: he shall be a father to you.


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And Judas Maccabaeus, he has been strong and mighty from his youth: he shall be your captain, and  shall fight the battle of the people.


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And he died in  the hundred and forty and sixth year, and his sons buried him in the sepulchres of his fathers at Modin, and all Israel made great lamentation for him.


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And all his kindred helped him, and so did all those who clave to his father, and they fought with gladness the battle of Israel.


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And he got his people great glory, and put on a breastplate as a giant, and girded his warlike harness about him, and set battles in array, protecting the army with his sword.


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And the lawless shrunk for fear of him, and all the workers of lawlessness were sore troubled, and salvation prospered in his hand.


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And he went about amongst the cities of Judah, and destroyed the ungodly  out of the land, and turned away wrath from Israel:


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and he was renowned to the utmost part of the earth, and he gathered together such as were ready to perish.


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And Apollonius gathered the Gentiles together, and a great army from Samaria, to fight against Israel.


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And Judas perceived it, and he went forth to meet him, and struck him, and killed him: and many fell wounded to death, and the rest fled.


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And they took their spoils, and Judas took the sword of Apollonius, and therewith he fought all his days.


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And Seron, the commander of the army of Syria, heard say that Judas had gathered a gathering and a congregation of faithful men with him, and of such as went out to war;


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And he said, I will make myself a name and get me glory in the kingdom; and I will fight against Judas and those who are with him, that set at nothing the word of the king.


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And there went up with him also a mighty army of the ungodly to help him, to take vengeance on the children of Israel.


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And he came near to the going up of Bethhoron, and Judas went forth to meet him with a small company.


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But when they saw the army coming to meet them, they said to Judas, What? shall we be able, being a small company, to fight against so great and strong a multitude? and we for our part are faint, having tasted no food this day.


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And Judas said, It is an easy thing for many to be shut up in the hands of a few; and with  heaven it is all one, to save by many or by few:


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They come to us in fullness of insolence and lawlessness, to destroy us and our wives and our children, for to plunder us:


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Now when he had left off speaking, he leapt suddenly upon them, and Seron and his army were discomfited before him.


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And they pursued them in the going down of Bethhoron to the plain, and there fell of them about eight hundred men; but the residue fled into the land of the Philistines.


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And the fear of Judas and his kindred, and the dread of them, began to fall upon the nations round about them:


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But when king Antiochus heard these words, he was full of indignation: and he sent and gathered together all the forces of his realm, an exceedingly strong army.


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And he opened his treasury, and gave his forces pay for a year, and commanded them to be ready for every need.


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And he saw that the money failed from his treasures, and that the tributes of the country were small, because of the dissension and plague which he had brought upon the land, to the end that he might take away the laws which had been from the first days;


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and he feared that he should not have enough as at other times for the charges and the gifts which he gave aforetime with a liberal hand, and he abounded above the kings that were before him.


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And he was exceedingly perplexed in his mind, and he determined to go into Persia, and to take the tributes of the countries, and to gather much money.


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And he left Lysias, an honourable man, and one of the seed royal, to be over the affairs of the king from the river Euphrates to the borders of Egypt,


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And he delivered to him the half of his forces, and the elephants, and gave him charge of all the things that he would have done, and concerning those who lived in Judea and in Jerusalem,


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that he should send an army against them, to root out and destroy the strength of Israel, and the remnant of Jerusalem, and to take away their memorial from the place;


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And that he should make strangers to dwell on all their coasts, and should divide their land to them by lot.


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And the king took the half that remained of the forces, and removed from Antioch, from his royal city,  the hundred and forty and seventh year; and he passed over the river Euphrates, and went through the upper countries.


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And Lysias chose Ptolemy the son of Dorymenes, and Nicanor, and Gorgias, mighty men of the king’s  Friends;


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and with them he sent forty thousand footmen, and seven thousand horse, to go into the land of Judah, and to destroy it, according to the word of the king.


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And the merchants of the country heard the fame of them, and took silver and gold exceedingly much, with  fetters, and came into the camp to take the children of Israel for servants: and there were added to them the forces of Syria and of the land of the  Philistines.


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And Judas and his kindred saw that evils were multiplied, and that the forces were encamping in their borders; and they took knowledge of the king’s words which he had commanded, to destroy the people and make an end of them;


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and they said each man to his neighbour, Let’s raise up the ruin of our people, and let’s fight for our people and the holy place.


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And the congregation was gathered together, that they might be ready for battle, and that they might pray, and ask for mercy and compassion.


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And Jerusalem was without inhabitant as a wilderness, there was none of her offspring that went in or went out; and the sanctuary was trodden down, and the sons of strangers were in the citadel, the Gentiles lodged therein; and joy was taken away from Jacob, and the pipe and the harp ceased.


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And they gathered themselves together, and came to Mizpeh, near Jerusalem; for in Mizpeh was there a place of prayer aforetime for Israel.


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And they fasted that day, and put on sackcloth, andput ashes upon their heads, and tore their clothes,


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and laid open the book of the law, concerning which the Gentiles were wont to enquire, seeking the likenesses of their idols.


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And they brought the priests’ garments, and the first fruits, and the tithes: and they stirred up the Nazarites, who had accomplished their days.


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And they cried aloud towards heaven, saying, What shall we do with these men, and where shall we carry them away?


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And your holy place is trodden down and profaned, and your priests are in heaviness and brought low.


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And, behold, the Gentiles are assembled together against us to destroy us: you know what things they imagine against us.


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And after this Judas appointed leaders of the people, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens.


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And he said to those who were building houses, and were betrothing wives, and were planting vineyards, and were fearful, that they should return, each man to his own house, according to the law.


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And Judas said, Gird yourselves, and be valiant men, and be in readiness against the morning, that you° may fight with these Gentiles, that are assembled together against us to destroy us, and our holy place:


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for it is better for us to die in battle, than to look upon the evils of our nation and the holy place.


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that it might fall upon the army of the Jews and strike them suddenly: and the men of the citadel were his guides.


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And Judas heard thereof, and removed, he and the valiant men, that he might strike the king’s army which was at Emmaus,


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And Gorgias came into the camp of Judas by night, and found no man; and he sought them in the mountains; for he said, These men flee from us.


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And as soon as it was day, Judas appeared in the plain with three thousand men: however they had not armour nor swords to their minds.


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And they saw the camp of the Gentiles strongand fortified, and horsemen compassing it round about; and these were expert in war.


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And Judas said to the men that were with him, Fear you° not their multitude, neither be you° afraid of their onset.


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And now let’s cry to heaven, if he will have us, and will remember the covenant of our fathers, and destroy this army before our face today:


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But all the hindmost fell by the sword: and they pursued them to  Gazara, and to the plains of Idumaea and Azotus and Jamnia, and there fell of them about three thousand men.


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and Gorgias and his army are near to us in the mountain. But stand you° now against our enemies, and fight against them, and afterwards take the spoils with boldness.


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While Judas was yet making an end of these words, there appeared a part of them looking out from the mountain:


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and they saw that their army had been put to flight, and that the Jews were burning the camp; for the smoke that was seen declared what was done.


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But when they perceived these things, they were sore afraid; and perceiving also the army of Judas in the plain ready for battle,


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And Judas returned to plunder the camp, and they got much gold, and silver, and blue, and sea purple, and great riches.


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And they returned home, and sang a song of thanksgiving, and gave praise  to heaven; becausehis mercy is good, because his mercy endures forever.


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but when he heard thereof, he was confounded and discouraged, because neither had such things as he would been done to Israel, nor had such things as the king commanded him come to pass.


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And in the next year he gathered together threescore thousand chosen footmen, and five thousand horse, that he might subdue them.


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And he saw that the army was strong, and he prayed and said,
Blessed are you, O Saviour of Israel, who did quell the onset of the mighty man by the hand of your servant David, and did deliver the army of the  Philistines into the hands of Jonathan the son of Saul, and of his armour bearer:


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shut up this army in the hand of your people Israel, and let them be ashamed for their army and their horsemen:


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give them faintness of heart, and cause the boldness of their strength to melt away, and let them quake at their destruction:


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cast them down with the sword of those who love you, and let all that know your name praise you with thanksgiving.


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And they joined battle; and there fell of the army of Lysias about five thousand men, and they fell down near them.


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But when Lysias saw that his array was put to flight, and the boldness that had come upon those who were with Judas, and how they were ready either to live or to die nobly, he removed to Antioch, and gathered together hired soldiers, that he might come again into Judea with even a greater company.


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But Judas and his kindred said, Behold, our enemies are discomfited: let’s go up to cleanse the holy place, and to dedicate it afresh.


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And they saw the sanctuary laid desolate, and the altar profaned, and the gates burnt up, and shrubs growing in the courts as in a forest or as on one of the mountains, and the priests’ chambers pulled down;


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and fell on their faces to the ground, and  blew with the  solemn trumpets, and cried towards heaven.


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Then Judas appointed certain men to fight against those that were in the citadel, until he should have cleansed the holy place.


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And they took counsel concerning the altar of burnt offerings, which had been profaned, what they should do with it:


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and there came into their mind a good counsel, that they should pull it down, lest it should be a reproach to them, because the Gentiles had defiled it: and they pulled down the altar,


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and laid up the stones in the mountain of the house in a convenient place, until there should come a prophet to give an answer concerning them.


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And they took whole stones according to the law, and built a new altar after the fashion of the former;


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And they made the holy vessels new, and they brought the candlestick, and the altar of burnt offerings and of incense, and the table, into the temple.


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And they burnt incense upon the altar, and they lighted the lamps that were upon the candlestick, and they gave light in the temple.


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And they set loaves upon the table, and spread out the veils, and finished all the works which they made.


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And they rose up early in the morning, on the five and twentieth day of the ninth month, which is the month Chislev, in  the hundred and forty and eighth year,


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and offered sacrifice according to the law upon the new altar of burnt offerings which they had made.


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At what time and on what day the Gentiles had profaned it, even on thatday was it dedicated afresh, with songs and harps and lutes, and with cymbals.


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And all the people fell upon their faces, and worshipped, and  gave praise to heaven, which had given them good success.


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And they kept the dedication of the altar eight days, and offered burnt offerings with gladness, and sacrificed a sacrifice of deliverance and praise.


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And they decked the forefront of the temple with crowns of gold and small shields, and dedicated afresh the gates and the priests’ chambers, and made doors for them.


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And there was exceedingly great gladness amongst the people, and the reproach of the Gentiles was turned away.


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And Judas and his kindred and the whole congregation of Israel ordained, that the days of the dedication of the altar should be kept in their seasons from year to year by the space of eight days, from the five and twentieth day of the month Chislev, with gladness and joy.


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And at that season they built up the mount Sion with high walls and strong towers round about, lest perhaps the Gentiles should come and tread them down, as they had done aforetime.


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And he set there a force to keep it, and they fortified Bethsura to keep it; that the people might have a stronghold near Idumaea.


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And it came to pass, when the Gentiles round about heard that the altar was built, and the sanctuary dedicated as aforetime, they were exceedingly angry.


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And they took counsel to destroy the race of Jacob that was in the midst of them, and they began to kill and destroy amongst the people.


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And Judas fought against the children of Esau in Idumaea at Akrabattine, because they besieged Israel: and he struck them with a great slaughter, and brought down their pride, and took their spoils.


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And he remembered the wickedness of the children of  Baean, who were to the people a snare and a stumbling block, lying in wait for them in the ways.


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And they were shut up by him in the towers; and he encamped against them, and destroyed them utterly, and burnt with fire the towers of the place, with all that were therein.


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And he passed over to the children of Ammon, and found a mighty band, and much people, with Timotheus for their leader.


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And he fought many battles with them, and they were discomfited before his face; and he struck them,


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And the Gentiles that were in Gilead gathered themselves together against the Israelites that were on their borders, to destroy them. And they fled to the stronghold of Dathema,


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and sent letters to Judas and his kindred, saying, The Gentiles that are round about us are gathered together against us to destroy us:


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and they are preparing to come and get possession of the stronghold whereunto we are fled for refuge, and Timotheus is the leader of their army.


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And all our kindred that were in the land of  Tubias have been put to death; and they have carried into captivity their wives and their children and their stuff; and they destroyed there about a thousand men.


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While the letters were yet reading, behold, there came other messengers from Galilee with their clothes tore, bringing a report after this wise,


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saying, That there were gathered together against them those of Ptolemais, and of Tyre, and of Sidon, and all Galilee of the  Gentiles to consume them.


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Now when Judas and the people heard these words, there assembled together a great congregation, to consult what they should do for their kindred, that were in suffering, and were assaulted of them.


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And Judas said to Simon his brother, Choose you out men, and go and deliver your kindred that are in Galilee, but I and Jonathan my brother will go into the land of Gilead.


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And he left Joseph the son of Zacharias, and Azarias, as leaders of the people, with the remnant of the army, in Judea, for to keep it.


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And he gave commandment to them, saying, Take you° the charge of this people, and fight no battle with the Gentiles until that we come again.


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And to Simon were divided three thousand men to go into Galilee, but to Judas eight thousand mento go into the land of Gilead.


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And Simon went into Galilee, and fought many battles with the Gentiles, and the Gentiles were discomfited before him.


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And he pursued them to the gate of Ptolemais; and there fell of the Gentiles about three thousand men, and he took their spoils.


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And they took to them those that were in Galilee, and in Arbatta, with their wives and their children, and all that they had, and brought them into Judea with great gladness.


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And Judas Maccabaeus and his brother Jonathan passed over Jordan, and went three days’ journey in the wilderness;


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and they met with the Nabathaeans, and these met them in a peaceful manner, and told them all things that had befallen their kindred in the land of Gilead:


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and how that many of them were shut up in Bosora, and Bosor, and Alema,  Casphor, Maked, and  Carnaim; all these cities are strong and great:


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and how that they were shut up in the rest of the cities of the land of Gilead, and that tomorrow they have appointed to encamp against the strongholds, and to take them, and to destroy all these men in one day.


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And Judas and his army turned suddenly by the way of the wilderness to Bosora; and he took the city, and killed all the males with the edge of the sword, and took all their spoils, and burnt the city with fire.


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And the morning came, and they lifted up their eyes, and, behold, much people which could not be counted, bearing ladders and engines of war, to take the stronghold; and they were fighting against them.


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And Judas saw that the battle was begun, and that the cry of the city went up to heaven, with trumpets and a great sound,


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And he went forth behind them in three companies, and they sounded with their trumpets, and cried out in prayer.


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And the army of Timotheus perceived that it was Maccabaeus, and they fled from before him: and he struck them with a great slaughter; and there fell of them on that day about eight thousand men.


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And he turned away to Mizpeh and fought against it, and took it, and killed all the males thereof, and took the spoils thereof, and burnt it with fire.


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From thence he removed, and took  Casphor, Maked, Bosor, and the other cities of the land of Gilead.


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And Judas sent men to espy the army; and they brought him word, saying, All the Gentiles that be round about us are gathered together to them, an exceedingly great army.


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And they have hired Arabians to help them, and are encamping beyond the brook, ready to come against you to battle. And Judas went to meet them.


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And Timotheus said to the captains of his army, when Judas and his army drew near to the brook of water, If he pass over first to us, we shall not be able to withstand him; for he will mightily prevail against us:


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but if he be afraid, and encamp beyond the river, we will cross over to him, and prevail against him.


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Now when Judas came near to the brook of water, he caused the scribes of the people to remain by the brook, and gave commandment to them, saying, Suffer no man to encamp, but let all come to the battle.


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And he crossed over the first against them, and all the people after him: and all the Gentiles were discomfited before his face, and cast away their arms, and fled to the temple at  Carnaim.


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And they took the city, and burnt the temple with fire, together with all that were therein. And Carnaim was subdued, neither could they stand any longer before the face of Judas.


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And Judas gathered together all Israel, those who were in the land of Gilead, from the least to the greatest, and their wives, and their children, and their stuff, an exceedingly great army, that they might come into the land of Judah.


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And they came as far as Ephron, and this same city was great,and it was in the way as they should go, exceedingly strong: they could not turn away from it on the right hand or on the left, but must needs pass through the midst of it.


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And Judas sent to them with words of peace, saying, We will pass through your land to go into our own land, and none shall do you any hurt, we will only pass by on our feet. And they would not open to him.


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And Judas commanded proclamation to be made in the army, that each man should encamp in the place where he was.


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And the men of the army encamped, and fought against the city all that day and all that night, and the city was delivered into his hands;


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and he destroyed all the males with the edge of the sword, and rased the city, and took the spoils thereof, and passed through the city over those who were slain.


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And Judas gathered together those that lagged behind, and encouraged the people all the way through, until he came into the land of Judah.


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And they went up to mount Sion with gladness and joy, and offered whole burnt offerings, because not so much as one of them was slain until they returned in peace.


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And in the days when Judas and Jonathan were in the land of Gilead, and Simon his brother in Galilee before Ptolemais,


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Joseph the son of Zacharias, and Azarias, rulers of the army, heard of their exploits and of the war, what things they had done;


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and they said, Let’s also get us a name, and let’s go fight against the Gentiles that are around us.


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And Joseph and Azarias were put to flight, and were pursued to the borders of Judea; and there fell on that day of the people of Israel about two thousand men.


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And there was a great overthrow amongst the people, because they didn’t listen to Judas and his kindred, thinking to do some exploit.


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And the man Judas and his kindred were glorified exceedingly in the sight of all Israel, and of all the Gentiles, wherever their name was heard of;


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And Judas and his kindred went forth, and fought against the children of Esau in the land towards the south; and he struck Hebron and the  villages thereof, and pulled down the strongholds thereof, and burnt the towers thereof round about.


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In that day certain priests, desiring to do exploits there, were slain in battle, when as  he went out to battle unadvisedly.


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And Judas turned towards Azotus, to the land of the  Philistines, and pulled down their altars, and burnt the carved images of their gods with fire, and took the plunder of their cities, and returned into the land of Judah.


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And king Antiochus was journeying through the upper countries; and he heard say, that in Elymais in Persia there was a city renowned for riches, for silver and gold;


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and that the temple which was in it was rich exceedingly, and that therein were golden shields, and breastplates, and arms, which Alexander, son of Philip, the Macedonian king, who reigned first amongst the Greeks, left behind there.


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And he came and sought to take the city, and to pillage it; and he was not able, because the thing was known to them of the city,


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and they rose up against him to battle: and he fled, and removed thence with great heaviness, to return to Babylon.


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And there came one bringing him tidings into Persia, that the armies, which went against the land of Judah, had been put to flight;


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and that Lysias went first with a strong army, and was put to shame before them; and that they had waxed strong by reason of arms and power, and with store of spoils, which they took from the armies that they had cut off;


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and that they had pulled down the abomination which he had built upon the altar that was in Jerusalem; and that they had compassed about the sanctuary with high walls, as before, and Bethsura, his city.


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And it came to pass, when the king heard these words, he was astonished and moved exceedingly: and he laid him down upon his bed, and fell sick for grief, because it had not befallen him as he looked for.


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And he was there many days, because great grief was renewed upon him, and he made account that he should die.


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And he called for all his  Friends, and said to them, Sleep departs from my eyes, and my heart fails for care.


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And I said in my heart, To what suffering am I come, and how great a flood is it, wherein I now am! for I was gracious and beloved in my power.


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But now I remember the evils which I did at Jerusalem, and that I took all the vessels of silver and gold that were therein, and sent forth to destroy the inhabitants of Judah without a cause.


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I perceive that on this account these evils are come upon me, and, behold, I perish through great grief in a strange land.


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and gave him his diadem, and his robe, and his signet ring, to the end he should bring Antiochus his son, and nourish him up that he might be king.


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And Lysias knew that the king was dead, and he set up Antiochus his son to reign, whom he had nourished up being young, and he called his name Eupator.


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And those who were in the citadel shut up Israel round about the sanctuary, and sought always their hurt, and the strengthening of the Gentiles.


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And they were gathered together, and besieged them in  the hundred and fifties year, and he made mounds to shoot from, and engines of war.


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And there came forth some of those who were shut up, and there were joined to them certain ungodly men of Israel.


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And they went to the king, and said, How long will you not execute judgement, and avenge our kindred?


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and for this cause the children of our people besieged  the citadel, and were alienated from us; but as many of us as they could light on they killed, and plundered our inheritances.


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And, behold, they are encamped this day against the citadel at Jerusalem, to take it: and the sanctuary and Bethsura have they fortified.


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And if you° are not beforehand with them quickly, they will do greater things than these, and you shall not be able to control them.


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And when the king heard this, he was angry, and gathered together all his  Friends,even the rulers of his army, and those who were over the horse.


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And the number of his forces was a hundred thousand footmen, and twenty thousand horsemen, and two and thirty elephants trained for war.


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And they went through Idumaea, and encamped against Bethsura, and fought against it many days, and made engines of war; and theyof Bethsura came out, and burnt them with fire, and fought valiantly.


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And the king rose early in the morning, and removed his army  at full speed along the road to Bethzacharias, and his forces made them ready to battle, and sounded with the trumpets.


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And they showed the elephants the blood of grapes and mulberries, that they might prepare them for the battle.


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And they divided the beasts amongst the phalanxes, and they set by each elephant a thousand men armed with coats of mail, and helmets of brass on their heads; and for each beast were appointed five hundred chosen horsemen.


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These were ready beforehand, wherever the beast was; and wherever the beast went, they went with him; they departed not from him.


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And towers of wood were upon them, strongand covered, one upon each beast, girded fast upon him with cunning contrivances; and upon eachbeast were two and thirty valiant men that fought upon them, beside his Indian


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(and the residue of the horsemen he set on this side and that side at the two parts of the army), striking terrorinto the enemy, and protected by the phalanxes.


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Now when the sun shone upon the shields of gold and brass, the mountains shone therewith, and blazed like torches of fire.


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And a part of the king’s army was spread upon the high mountains, and some on the low ground, and they went on firmly and in order.


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And all that heard the noise of their multitude, and the marching of the multitude, and the rattling of the arms, did quake: for the army was exceedingly great and strong.


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And Eleazar, who wascalled Avaran, saw one of the beasts armed with royal breastplates, and he was higher than all the beasts, and the king seemed to be upon him;


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and he ran upon him courageously into the midst of the phalanx, and killed on the right hand and on the left, and they parted asunder from him on this side and on that.


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And he crept under the elephant, and thrust him from beneath, and killed him; andthe elephant fell to the earth upon him, and he died there.


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And they saw the strength of the kingdom, and the fierce onset of the army, and turned away from them.


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But they of the king’s army went up to Jerusalem to meet them, and the king encamped towards Judea, and towards mount Sion.


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And he made peace with them of Bethsura; and he came out of the city, because they had no food there to endure the siege, because it was a Sabbath to the land.


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And he encamped against the sanctuary many days; and set there mounds to shoot from, and engines of war, and instruments for casting fire and stones, and pieces to cast darts, and slings.


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But there were no food in the sanctuary, because it was the seventh year, and those who fled for safety into Judea from amongst the Gentiles had eaten up the residue of the store;


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and there were but a few left in the sanctuary, because the famine prevailed against them, and they were scattered, each man to his own place.


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And Lysias heard say, that Philip, whom Antiochus the king, whiles he was yet alive, appointed to nourish up his son Antiochus, that he might be king,


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was returned from Persia and Media, and with him the forces that went with the king, and that he was seeking to take to him the government.


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And he made haste, and gave consent to depart; and he said to the king and the leaders of the army and to the men, We decay daily, and our food is scant, and the place where we encamp is strong, and the affairs of the kingdom lie upon us:


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now therefore let’s give the right hand to these men, and make peace with them and with all their nation,


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and covenant with them, that they shall walk after their own laws, as aforetime: for because of their laws which we abolished they were angered, and did all these things.


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And the saying pleased the king and the princes, and he sent to them to make peace; and they accepted thereof.


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And the king entered into mount Sion; and he saw the strength of the place, and set at nothing the oath which he had sworn, and gave commandment to pull down the wall round about.


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And he removed in haste, and returned to Antioch, and found Philip master of the city; and he fought against him, and took the city by force.


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In  the hundred and one and fifties year Demetrius the son of Seleucus came forth from Rome, and went up with a few men to a city by the sea, and reigned there.


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And it came to pass, when he would go into the house of the kingdom of his fathers, that the army laid hands on Antiochus and Lysias, to bring them to him.


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And there came to him all the lawless and ungodly men of Israel; and Alcimus was their leader, desiring to be high priest;


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and they accused the people to the king, saying, Judas and his kindred have destroyed all your friends, and have scattered us from our own land.


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Now therefore send a man whom you trust, and let him go and see all the havock which he has made of us, and of the king’s country, andhow he has punished them and all that helped them.


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And the king chose Bacchides, one of the king’s  Friends, who was ruler in the country beyond the river, and was a great man in the kingdom, and faithful to the king.


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And he sent him, and that ungodly Alcimus, and made sure to him the high priesthood, and he commanded him to take vengeance upon the children of Israel.


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And they removed, and came with a great army into the land of Judah, and he sent messengers to Judas and his kindred with words of peace deceitfully.


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And there were gathered together to Alcimus and Bacchides a company of scribes, to seek for justice.


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for they said, One that is a priest of the seed of Aaron is come with the forces, and he will do us no wrong.


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And he spoke with them words of peace, and sware to them, saying, We will seek the hurt neither of you nor your friends.


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And they gave him credence: and he laid hands on threescore men of them, and killed them in one day, according to the word whichthe psalmist wrote,


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The flesh of your saintsdid they cast out,
And their blood did they shed round about Jerusalem;
And there was no man to bury them.


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And the fear and the dread of them fell upon all the people, for they said, There is neither truth nor judgement in them; for they have broken the covenant and the oath which they sware.


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And Bacchides removed from Jerusalem, and encamped in Bezeth; and he sent and took away many of the deserters that were with him, and certain of the people, and he killed them,and cast them into the great pit.


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And he made sure the country to Alcimus, and left with him a force to aid him; and Bacchides went away to the king.


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And there were gathered to him all those who troubled their people, and they got the mastery of the land of Judah, and did great hurt in Israel.


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And Judas saw all the mischief that Alcimus and his company had done amongst the children of Israel,even above the Gentiles,


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and he went out into all the coasts of Judea round about, and took vengeance on the men that had deserted from him, and they were restrained from going forth into the country.


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But when Alcimus saw that Judas and his company waxed strong, and knew that he was not able to withstand them, he returned to the king, and brought evil accusations against them.


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And the king sent Nicanor, one of his honourable princes, a man that hated Israel and was their enemy, and commanded him to destroy the people.


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And Nicanor came to Jerusalem with a great army; and he sent to Judas and his kindred deceitfully with words of peace, saying,


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Let there be no battle between me and you; I will come with a few men, that I may see your faces in peace.


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And he came to Judas, and they saluted one another peaceably. And the enemies were ready to take away Judas by violence.


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And the thing was known to Judas,to wit, that he came to him with deceit, and he was sore afraid of him, and would see his face no more.


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And Nicanor knew that his counsel was discovered; and he went out to meet Judas in battle beside Capharsalama;


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And after these things Nicanor went up to mount Sion: and there came some of the priests out of the sanctuary, and some of the elders of the people, to salute him peaceably, and to show him the whole burnt sacrifice that was being offered for the king.


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and sware in a rage, saying, Unless Judas and his army be now delivered into my hands, it shall be that, if I come again in peace, I will burn up this house: and he went out in a great rage.


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You did choose this house to be called by your name, to be a house of prayer and supplication for your people:


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take vengeance on this man and his army, and let them fall by the sword: remember their blasphemies, and suffer them not to live any longer.


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And Nicanor went forth from Jerusalem, and encamped in Bethhoron, and there met him the army of Syria.


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When those who came from the king blasphemed, your angel went out, and struck amongst them a hundred and fourscore and five thousand.


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Even so discomfit you this army before us today, and let all the rest know that he has spoken wickedly against your sanctuary, and judge you him according to his wickedness.


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And on the thirteenth day of the month Adar the armies joined battle: and Nicanor’s army was discomfited, and he himself was the first to fall in the battle.


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And they pursued after them a day’s journey from Adasa until you come to  Gazara, and they sounded an alarm after them with the  solemn trumpets.


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And they came forth out of all the villages of Judea round about, and  closed them in; and these turned them back on those, and they all fell by the sword, and there was not one of them left.


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And they took the spoils, and the booty, and they struck off Nicanor’s head, and his right hand, which he stretched out so haughtily, and brought them, and  hanged them up beside Jerusalem.


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And Judas heard of the fame of the Romans, that they are valiant men, and have pleasure in all that join themselves to them, and make friends with all such as come to them,


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and that they are valiant men. And they told him of their wars and exploits which they do amongst the Gauls, and how that they conquered them, and brought them under tribute;


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and what things they did in the land of Spain, that they might become masters of the mines of silver and gold which were there;


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and how that by their policy and persistence they conquered all the place (and the place was exceedingly far from them), and the kings that came against them from the uttermost part of the earth, until they had discomfited them, and struck them very sore; and how the rest give them tribute year by year:


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and Philip, and Perseus, king of Chittim, and those who lifted up themselves against them, did they discomfit in battle, and conquered them:


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Antiochus also, the great king of Asia, who came against them to battle, having a hundred and twenty elephants, with horse, and chariots, and an exceedingly great army, and he was discomfited by them,


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and they took him alive, and appointed that both he and such as reigned after him should give them a great tribute, and should give hostages, and a parcelof land, to wit,


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the country of India, and Media, and Lydia, and of the goodliest of their countries; and they took them from him, and gave them to king Eumenes:


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and the thing was known to them, and they sent against them a captain, and fought against them, and many of them fell down wounded to death, and they made captive their wives and their children, and plundered them, and conquered their land, and pulled down their strongholds, and plundered them, and brought them into bondage to this day:


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and the residue of the kingdoms and of the isles, as many as rose up against them at any time, they destroyed and made them to be their servants;


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but with their friends and such as relied upon them they stayed friends; and they conquered the kingdoms that were near and those that were far off, and all that heard of their fame were afraid of them:


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moreover, whoever they will to help and to make kings, these do they make kings; and whoever they will, do they depose; and they are exalted exceedingly:


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and for all this none of them did ever put on a diadem, neither did they clothe themselves with purple, to be magnified by it:


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and how they had made for themselves a senate house, and day by day three hundred and twenty men sat in council, consulting always for the people, to the end they might be well ordered:


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and how they commit their government to one man year by year, that he should rule over them, and be lord over all their country, and all are obedient to that one, and there is neither envy nor emulation amongst them.


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And Judas chose Eupolemus the son of John, the son of Accos, and Jason the son of Eleazar, and sent them to Rome, to establish friendship and alliance with them,


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and that they should take the yoke from them; for they saw that the kingdom of the Greeks did keep Israel in bondage.


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And they went to Rome (and the way was exceedingly long), and they entered into the senate house, and answered and said,


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Judas, who is alsocalled Maccabaeus, and his kindred, and the people of the Jews, have sent us to you, to make a confederacy and peace with you, and that we might be registered your allies and friends.


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And this is the copy of the writing which they wrote back again on tables of brass, and sent to Jerusalem, that it might be with them there for a memorial of peace and confederacy:


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Good success be to the Romans, and to the nation of the Jews, by sea and by land forever: the sword also and the enemy be far from them.


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the nation of the Jews shall help them as allies, as the occasion shall prescribe to them, with all their heart:


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and to those who make war upon them they shall not give, neither supply, food, arms, money, or ships, as it has seemed good to Rome, and they shall keep their ordinances without taking anything therefore.


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In the same manner, moreover, if war come first upon the nation of the Jews, the Romans shall help them as allies with all their soul, as the occasion shall prescribe to them:


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and to those who are allieswith their foes there shall not be given food, arms, money, or ships, as it has seemed good to Rome; and they shall keep these ordinances, and that without deceit.


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But if hereafter the one party and the other shall take counsel to add or diminish anything, they shall do it at their pleasure, and whatever they shall add or take away shall be established.


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And as touching the evils which king Demetrius does to them, we have written to him, saying, Wherefore have you made your yoke heavy upon our friends and allies the Jews?


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If therefore they plead any more against you, we will do them justice, and fight with you by sea and by land.


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And Demetrius heard that Nicanor was fallen with his forces in battle, and he sent Bacchides and Alcimus again into the land of Judah a second time, and the right wingof his army with them:


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and they went by the way that leads to Gilgal, and encamped against Mesaloth, which is in Arbela, and got possession of it, and destroyed much people.


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and they saw the multitude of the forces, that they were many, and they feared exceedingly: and many slipped away out of the army; there were not left of them more than eight hundred men.


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And Judas saw that his army slipped away, and that the battle pressed upon him, and he was sore troubled in heart, for that he had no time to gather them together, and he waxed faint.


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And he said to those who were left, Let’s arise and go up against our adversaries, if perhaps we may be able to fight with them.


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And they would have dissuaded him, saying, We shall in no wise be able: but let’s rather save our lives now: let’s return again,we and our kindred, and fight against them: but we are few.


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And Judas said, let it not be so that I should do this thing, to flee from them: and if our time is come, let’s die in a manly way for our kindred’s sake, and not leave a cause of reproach against our glory.


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And the army removed from the camp, and stood to encounter them, and the horse was parted into two companies, and the slingers and the archers went before the army, and all the mighty men that fought in the front of the battle.


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But Bacchides was in the right wing; and the phalanx drew near on the two parts, and they blew with their trumpets.


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And the men of Judas’ side, even they sounded with their trumpets, and the earth shook with the shout of the armies, and the battle was joined, and continued from morning until evening.


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And Judas saw that Bacchides and the strength of his army were on the right side, and there went with him all that were brave in heart,


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And those who were on the left wing saw that the right wing was discomfited, and they turned and followed upon the footsteps of Judas and of those that were with him:


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And Jonathan and Simon took Judas their brother, and buried him in the sepulchre of his fathers at Modin.


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And they bewailed him, and all Israel made great lamentation for him, and mourned many days, and said,


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And the rest of the acts of Judas, and his wars, and the valiant deeds which he did, and his greatness, they are not written; for they were exceedingly many.


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And it came to pass after the death of Judas, that the lawless put forth their heads in all the coasts of Israel, and all those who did iniquity rose up


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And they sought out and searched for the friends of Judas, and brought them to Bacchides, and he took vengeance on them, and used them despitefully.


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And there was great suffering in Israel, such as was not since the time that no prophet appeared to them.


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Since your brother Judas has died, we have no man like him to go forth against our enemies and Bacchides, and amongst them of our nation that hate us.


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Now therefore we have chosen you this day to be our prince and leader in his stead, that you may fight our battles.


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And Jonathan took the governance upon him at that time, and rose up in the stead of his brother Judas.


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And Jonathan, and Simon his brother, and all that were with him, knew it; and they fled into the wilderness of Tekoah, and encamped by the water of the pool Asphar.


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AndJonathan sent his brother, a leader of the multitude, and implored his friends the Nabathaeans, that they might leave with them their baggage, which was much.


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And the children of Jambri came out of Medaba, and took John, and all that he had, and went their way with it.


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But after these things they brought word to Jonathan and Simon his brother, that the children of Jambri were making a great marriage, and were bringing the bride from Nadabath with a great train, a daughter of one of the great nobles of Canaan.


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And they remembered John their brother, and went up, and hid themselves under the covert of the mountain:


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and they lifted up their eyes, and saw, and, behold, a great ado and much baggage: and the bridegroom came forth, and his friends and his kindred, to meet them with timbrels, and minstrels, and many weapons.


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And they rose up against them from their ambush, and killed them, and many fell wounded to death, and the remnant fled into the mountain, and they took all their spoils.


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And Jonathan said to his company, Let’s stand up now and fight for our lives, for it is notwith us today, as yesterday and the day before.


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For, behold, the battle is before us and behind us; moreover the water of the Jordan is on this side and on that side, and marsh and wood; and there is no place to escape.


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And the battle was joined, and Jonathan stretched forth his hand to strike Bacchides, and he turned away back from him.


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And Jonathan and those who were with him leapt into the Jordan, and swam over to the other side: and they didn’t pass over Jordan against them.


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and he returned to Jerusalem. And they built strong cities in Judea, the stronghold that was in Jericho, and Emmaus, and Bethhoron, and Bethel, and Timnath, Pharathon, and Tephon, with high walls and gates and bars.


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And he fortified the city Bethsura, and Gazara, and the citadel, and put forces in them, and store of food.


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And he took the sons of the chief men of the country for hostages, and put them in ward in the citadel at Jerusalem.


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And in  the hundred and fifty and third year, in the second month, Alcimus commanded to pull down the wall of the inner court of the sanctuary; he pulled down also the works of the prophets;


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and he began to pull down. At that time was Alcimus stricken, and his works were hindered; and his mouth was stopped, and he was taken with a palsy, and he could no more speak anything and give order concerning his house.


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And Bacchides saw that Alcimus was dead, and he returned to the king: and the land of Judah had rest two years.


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And all the lawless men took counsel, saying, Behold, Jonathan and they of his part are dwelling at ease, and in security: now therefore we will bring Bacchides, and he shall lay hands on them all in one night.


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And he removed, and came with a great army, and sent letters privily to all his allies that were in Judea, that they should lay hands on Jonathan and those that were with him: and they could not, because their counsel was known to them.


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Andthose who were of Jonathan’s part laid hands on about fifty of the men of the country, that were authors of the wickedness, and he killed them.


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And Jonathan, and Simon, and those who were with him, got them away to Bethbasi, which is in the wilderness, and he built up that which had been pulled down thereof, and they made it strong.


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And Bacchides knew it, and he gathered together all his multitude, and sent word to those who were of Judea.


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And he went and encamped against Bethbasi, and fought against it many days, and made engines of war.


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And Jonathan left his brother Simon in the city, and went forth into the country, and he went with a few men.


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And they began to strike them, and to go up with their forces. And Simon and those who were with him went out of the city, and set on fire the engines of war,


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and fought against Bacchides, and he was discomfited by them, and they afflicted him sore; for his counsel was in vain, and his inroad.


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And they were very angry with the lawless men that gave him counsel to come into the country, and they killed many of them. And he took counsel to depart into his own land.


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And Jonathan had knowledge thereof, and sent ambassadors to him, to the end that they should make peace with him, and that he should restore to them the captives.


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And he accepted the thing, and did according to his words, and sware to him that he would not seek his hurt all the days of his life.


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And he restored to him the captives which he had taken aforetime out of the land of Judah, and he returned and departed into his own land, and came not any more into their borders.


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And the sword ceased from Israel. And Jonathan lived at Michmash; and Jonathan began to judge the people; and he destroyed the ungodly out of Israel.


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And in  the hundred and sixties year Alexander Epiphanes, the son of Antiochus, went up and took possession of Ptolemais: and they received him, and he reigned there.


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And king Demetrius heard thereof, and he gathered together exceedingly great forces, and went forth to meet him in battle.


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For he said, let’s go beforehand to make peace with them, before he makes peace with Alexander against us:


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for he will remember all the evils that we have done against him, and to his kindred and to his nation.


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And he gave him authority to gather together forces, and to provide arms, and that he should be his ally: and he commanded that they should deliver up to him the hostages that were in the citadel.


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And Jonathan came to Jerusalem, and read the letters in the audience of all the people, and of those who were in the citadel:


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and they were sore afraid, when they heard that the king had given him authority to gather together an army.


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And they of the citadel delivered up the hostages to Jonathan, and he restored them to their parents.


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And he commanded those who did the work to build the walls and the mount Sion round about with  square stones for defence; and they did so.


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Only at Bethsura were there left certain of those that had forsaken the law and the commandments; for it was a place of refuge to them.


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And king Alexander heard all the promises which Demetrius had sent to Jonathan: and they told him of the battles and the valiant deeds which he and his kindred had done, and of the toils which they had endured;


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And now we have appointed you this day to be high priest of your nation, and to be called the king’s  Friend (and he sent to him a purple robe and a crown of gold), and to take our part, and to keep friendship with us.


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And Jonathan put on the holy garments in the seventh month of  the hundred and sixties year, at the feast of tabernacles, and he gathered together forces, and provided arms in abundance.


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What is this that we have done, that Alexander has been beforehand with us in establishing friendship with the Jews, to strengthen himself?


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I also will write to them words of encouragement and of honour and of gifts, that they may be with me to aid me.


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Forasmuch as you° have kept your covenants with us, and continued in our friendship, and have not joined yourselves to our enemies, we have heard of this, and are glad.


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And now continue you° still to keep faith with us, and we will recompense to you good things in return for your dealings with us,


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And now do I free you, and release all the Jews, from the tributes, and from the customs of salt, and from the crowns.


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And instead of the third part of the seed, and instead of the half of the fruit of the trees, which falls to me to receive, I release it from this day and henceforth, so that I will not take it from the land of Judah, and from the three governments which are added thereto from the country of Samaria and Galilee, from this day forth and for all time.


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I yield up also my authority over the citadel which is at Jerusalem, and give it to the high priest, that he may appoint in it such men as he shall choose to keep it.


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And every soul of the Jews, that has been carried captive from the land of Judah into any part of my kingdom, I set at liberty without price; and let all remit the tributes of their cattle also.


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And all the feasts, and the Sabbaths, and new moons, and appointed days, and three days before a feast, and three days after a feast, let them all be days of immunity and release for all the Jews that are in my kingdom.


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And no man shall have authority to exact from any of them, or to trouble them concerning any matter.


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And let there be enrolled amongst the king’s forces about thirty thousand men of the Jews, and pay shall be given to them, as belongs to all the king’s forces.


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And of them some shall be placed in the king’s great strongholds, and some of them shall be placed over the affairs of the kingdom, which are of trust: and let those that are over them, and their rulers, be of themselves, and let them walk after their own laws, even as the king has commanded in the land of Judah.


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And the three governments that have been added to Judea from the country of Samaria, let them be added to Judea, that they may be reckoned to be under one, that they may not obey other authority than the high priest’s.


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As for Ptolemais, and the land pertaining thereto, I have given it as a gift to the sanctuary that is at Jerusalem, for the expenses that befit the sanctuary.


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And I give every year fifteen thousand shekels of silver from the king’s revenues from the places that are convenient.


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And all the overplus, which those who manage the king’s affairs paid not in as in the first years, they shall give from henceforth towards the works of the house.


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And beside this, the five thousand shekels of silver, which they received from the uses of the sanctuary from the revenue year by year, this also is released, because it appertains to the priests that minister.


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And whoever shall flee to the temple that is at Jerusalem, andbe found within all the borders thereof, whether one owe moneys to the king, or any other matter, let them go free, and all that they have in my kingdom.


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And for the building and renewing of the works of the sanctuary the expense shall be given also out of the king’s revenue.


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And for the building of the walls of Jerusalem, and the fortifying thereof round about, shall the expense be given also out of the king’s revenue, and for the building of the walls in Judea.


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Now when Jonathan and the people heard these words, they gave no credence to them, nor received them, because they remembered the great evil which he had done in Israel, and that he had afflicted them very sore.


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And they were well pleased with Alexander, because he was the first that spoke words of peace to them, and they were allies with him always.


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And the two kings joined battle, and the army of Alexander fled; and Demetrius followed after him, and prevailed against them.


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Forasmuch as I am returned to my kingdom, and am set on the throne of my fathers, and have gotten the dominion, and have overthrown Demetrius, and have gotten possession of our country;


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yes, I joined the battle with him, and he and his army were discomfited by us, and we sat upon the throne of his kingdom:


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now also let’s make friends with one another, and give me now your daughter to wife: and I will be joined with you, and will give both you and her gifts worthy of you.


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And Ptolemy the king answered, saying, Happy is the day wherein you did return into the land of your fathers, and did sit on the throne of their kingdom.


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And now I will do to you, as you have written: but meet me at Ptolemais, that we may see one another; and I will join with you, even as you have said.


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And Ptolemy went out of Egypt, himself and Cleopatra his daughter, and came to Ptolemais in  the hundred and threescore and second year:


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and king Alexander met him, and he bestowed on him his daughter Cleopatra, and celebrated her wedding at Ptolemais with great pomp, as the manner of kings is.


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And he went with pomp to Ptolemais, and met the two kings, and gave them and their  Friends silver and gold, and many gifts, and found favour in their sight.


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And there were gathered together against him certain pestilent fellows out of Israel, men that were transgressors of the law, to complain against him: and the king gave no heed to them.


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And the king commanded, and they took off Jonathan’s garments, and clothed him in purple: and thus they did.


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And the king made him sit with him, and said to his princes, Go forth with him into the midst of the city, and make proclamation, that no man complain against him of any matter, and let no man trouble him for any manner of cause.


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And it came to pass, when those who complained against him saw his glory according asthe herald made proclamation, andsaw him clothed in purple, they all fled away.


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And the king gave him honour, and wrote him amongst his  Chief Friends, and made him a captain, and governor of a province.


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And in  the hundred and threescore and fifth year came Demetrius, son of Demetrius, out of Crete into the land of his fathers:


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And Demetrius appointed Apollonius, who was over Coelesyria, and he gathered together a great army, and encamped in Jamnia, and sent to Jonathan the high priest, saying,


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You alone lift up yourself against us, but I am had in derision and in reproach because of you. And why do you vaunt your power against us in the mountains?


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Now therefore, if you trust in your forces, come down to us into the plain, and there let’s try the matter together; for with me is the power of the cities.


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Ask and learn who I am, and the rest that help us; and they say, Your foot can’t stand before our face; for your fathers have been twice put to flight in their own land.


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And now you shall not be able to withstand the horse and such an army as this in the plain, where is neither stone nor flint, nor place to flee to.


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Now when Jonathan heard the words of Apollonius, he was moved in his mind, and he chose out ten thousand men, and went forth from Jerusalem, and Simon his brother met him for to help him.


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And he encamped against Joppa: and they of the city shut him out, because Apollonius had a garrison in Joppa:


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and they fought against it. And they of the city were afraid, and opened to him: and Jonathan became master of Joppa.


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And Apollonius heard, and he gathered an army of three thousand horse, and a great army, and went to Azotus as though he were on a journey, and therewithal drew onward into the plain, because he had a multitude of horse, and trusted therein.


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And Jonathan knew that there was an ambushment behind him. And they compassed round his army, and cast their darts at the people, from morning until evening:


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And Simon drew forth his army, and joined battle with the phalanx (for the horsemen were spent), and they were discomfited by him, and fled.


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And the horsemen were scattered in the plain, and they fled to Azotus, and entered into Beth-dagon, their idol’s temple, to save themselves.


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And Jonathan burnt Azotus, and the cities round about it, and took their spoils; and the temple of Dagon, and those who fled into it, he burnt with fire.


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And from thence Jonathan removed, and encamped against Ascalon, and they of the city came forth to meet him with great pomp.


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and he sent to him a buckle of gold, as the use is to give to such as are of the kindred of the kings: and he gave him Ekron and all the coasts thereof for a possession.


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And the king of Egypt gathered together great forces, as the sand which is by the sea shore, and many ships, and sought to make himself master of Alexander’s kingdom by deceit, and to add it to his own kingdom.


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And he went forth into Syria with words of peace, and they of the cities opened to him, and met him; For king Alexander’s commandment was that they should meet him, because he was his father-in-law.


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But when he came near to Azotus, they showed him the temple of Dagon burnt with fire, and Azotus and the pasture lands thereof pulled down, and the bodies cast abroad, and those who had been burnt, whom he burnt in the war, for they had made heaps of them in his way.


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And they told the king what things Jonathan had done, that they might cast blame on him: and the king held his peace.


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And Jonathan went with the king as far as the river that is called Eleutherus, and returned to Jerusalem.


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But king Ptolemy became master of the cities upon the sea coast, to Selucia which is by the sea, and he devised evil plans concerning Alexander.


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And he sent ambassadors to king Demetrius, saying, Come! Let’s make a covenant with one another, and I will give you my daughter whom Alexander has, and you shall reign over your father’s kingdom;


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And taking his daughter from him, he gave her to Demetrius, and was estranged from Alexander, and their enmity was openly seen.


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And Ptolemy entered into Antioch, and put on himself the diadem of Asia; and he put two diadems upon his head, the diadem of Egypt and that of Asia.


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And Alexander heard of it, and he came against him in war: and Ptolemy led forthhis army, and met him with a strong force, and put him to flight.


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And king Ptolemy died the third day after, and those who were in his strongholds were slain by those who were in the strongholds.


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In those days Jonathan gathered together them of Judea, to take the citadel that was at Jerusalem: and he made many engines of war against it.


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And certain that hated their own nation, men that transgressed the law, went to the king, and reported to him that Jonathan was besieging the citadel.


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And he heard, and was angered; but when he heard it, he set forth immediately, and came to Ptolemais, and wrote to Jonathan, that he should not besiege it, and that he should meet him and speak with him at Ptolemais with all speed.


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But when Jonathan heard this, he commanded to besiege itstill: and he chose certain of the elders of Israel and of the priests, and put himself in peril,


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and taking silver and gold and raiment and various presents besides, went to Ptolemais to the king. And he found favour in his sight.


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and the king did to him even as his predecessors had done to him, and exalted him in the sight of all his  Friends,


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and confirmed to him the high priesthood, and all the other honours that he had before, and gave him preeminence amongst his  Chief Friends.


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And Jonathan requested of the king, that he would make Judea free from tribute, and the three  provinces, and the country of Samaria; and promised him three hundred talents.


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And the king consented, and wrote letters to Jonathan concerning all these things after this manner:


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The copy of the letter which we wrote to Lasthenes our kinsman concerning you, we have written also to you, that you° may see it.


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We have determined to do good to the nation of the Jews, who are our friends, and observe what is just towards us, because of their good will towards us.


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We have confirmed therefore to them the borders of Judea, and also the three governments of Aphaerema and Lydda and Ramathaim (these were added to Judea from the country of Samaria), and all things appertaining to them, for all such as do sacrifice in Jerusalem, instead of the king’s dues which the king received of them yearly aforetime from the produce of the earth and the fruits of trees.


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And as for the other things that pertain to us from henceforth, of the tenths and the tolls that pertain to us, and the salt pits, and the crowns that pertain to us, all these we will bestow upon them.


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Now therefore be careful to make a copy of these things, and let it be given to Jonathan, and let it be set up on the holy mount in a meet and conspicuous place.


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And king Demetrius saw that the land was quiet before him, and that no resistance was made to him, and he sent away all his forces, each man to his own place, except the foreign forces, which he had raised from the isles of the Gentiles: and all the forces of his fathers hated him.


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Now Tryphon was of those who aforetime had been of Alexander’s part, and he saw that all the forces murmured against Demetrius, and he went to Imalcue the Arabian, who was nourishing up Antiochus the young child of Alexander,


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and pressed sore upon him that he should deliver him to him, that he might reign in his father’s stead: and he told him all that Demetrius had done, and the hatred wherewith his forces hated him; and he abode there many days.


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And Jonathan sent to king Demetrius, that he should cast out of Jerusalem them of the citadel, and those who were in the strongholds; for they fought against Israel continually.


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And Demetrius sent to Jonathan, saying, I will not only do this for you and your nation, but I will greatly honour you and your nation, if I find fair occasion.


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Now therefore you shall do well, if you send me men who shall fight for me; for all my forces are revolted.


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And Jonathan sent him three thousand valiant men to Antioch: and they came to the king, and the king was glad at their coming.


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And they of the city gathered themselves together into the midst of the city, to the number of a hundred and twenty thousand men, and they were minded to kill the king.


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And the king fled into the court of the palace, and they of the city seized the passages of the city, and began to fight.


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And the king called the Jews to help him, and they were gathered together to him all at once, and they dispersed themselves in the city, and killed that day to the number of a hundred thousand.


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And they of the city saw that the Jews had made themselves masters of the city as they would, and they waxed faint in their hearts, and they cried out to the king with supplication, saying,


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And they cast away their arms, and made peace; and the Jews were glorified in the sight of the king, and before all that were in his kingdom; and they returned to Jerusalem, having many spoils.


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And he lied in all that he spoke, and estranged himself from Jonathan, and recompensed him not according to the benefits with which he had recompensed him, and afflicted him exceedingly.


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Now after this Tryphon returned, and with him the young child Antiochus; and he reigned, and put on a diadem.


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And there were gathered to him all the forces which Demetrius had sent away with disgrace, and they fought against him, and he fled and was put to the rout.


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And the young Antiochus wrote to Jonathan, saying, I confirm to you the high priesthood, and appoint you over the four governments, and to be one of the king’s  Friends.


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And he sent to him golden vessels and furniture for the table, and gave him leave to drink in golden vessels, and to be clothed in purple, and to have a golden buckle.


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And Jonathan went forth, and took his journey beyond the river and through the cities; and all the forces of Syria gathered themselves to him for to be his allies. And he came to Ascalon, and they of the city met him honourably.


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And he departed thence to Gaza, and they of Gaza shut him out; and he laid siege to it, and burnt the pasture lands thereof with fire, and plundered them.


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And they of Gaza made request to Jonathan, and he gave them his right hand, and took the sons of their princes for hostages, and sent them away to Jerusalem; and he passed through the country as far as Damascus.


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And Jonathan heard that Demetrius’ princes were come to Kedesh, which is in Galilee, with a great army, purposing to remove him from his office;


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and they made request to him that he would give them his right hand, and he gave it to them; and he put them out from thence, and took possession of the city, and set a garrison over it.


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And Jonathan and his army encamped at the water of Gennesareth, and early in the morning they got them to the plain of Hazor.


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And, behold, an army of strangers met him in the plain, and they laid an ambush for him in the mountains, but themselves met him face to face.


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But those who lay in ambush rose out of their places, and joined battle; and all those who were of Jonathan’s side fled:


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not one of them was left, except Mattathias the son of Absalom, and Judas the son of Chalphi, captains of the forces.


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And they of his side that fled saw it, and returned to him, and pursued with him to Kedesh to their camp, and they encamped there.


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And there fell of the strangers on that day about three thousand men: and Jonathan returned to Jerusalem.


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And Jonathan saw that the time served him, and he chose men, and sent them to Rome, to confirm and renew the friendship that they had with them.


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And they went to Rome, and entered into the senate house, and said, Jonathan the high priest, and the nation of the Jews, have sent us, to renew for them the friendship and the confederacy, as in former time.


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And they gave them letters to the men in every place, that they should bring them on their way to the land of Judah in peace.


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Jonathan the high priest, and the senate of the nation, and the priests, and the rest of the people of the Jews, to their kindred the Spartans, greeting:


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Even before this time were letters sent to Onias the high priest from  Arius, who was reigning amongst you, to signify that you° are our kindred, as the copy written below shows.


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And Onias entreated honourably the man that was sent, and received the letters, wherein declaration was made of confederacy and friendship.


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Therefore we also, albeit we need none of these things, having for our encouragement the holy books which are in our hands,


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have assayed to send that we might renew our brotherhood and friendship with you, to the end that we should not become estranged from you altogether: for long time is passed since you° sent to us.


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We therefore at all times without ceasing, both in our feasts, and on the other convenient days, do remember you in the sacrifices which we offer, and in our prayers, as it is right and meet to be mindful of kindred:


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But as for ourselves, many afflictions and many wars have encompassed us, and the kings that are round about us have fought against us.


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We were not minded therefore to be troublesome to you, and to the rest of our allies and friends, in these wars;


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for we have the help which is from heaven to help us, and we have been delivered from our enemies, and our enemies have been brought low.


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We chose therefore Numenius the son of Antiochus, and Antipater the son of Jason, and have sent them to the Romans, to renew the friendship that we had with them, and the former confederacy.


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We commanded them therefore to go also to you, and to salute you, and to deliver you our letters concerning the renewingof friendship and our brotherhood.


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It has been found in writing, concerning the Spartans and the Jews, that they are kindred, and that they are of the stock of Abraham:


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and now, since this is come to our knowledge, you° shall do well to write to us of your  prosperity.


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And we moreover do write on our part to you, that your cattle and goods are ours, and ours are yours. We do command therefore that they make report to you on this wise.


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And Jonathan heard that Demetrius’ princes were returned to fight against him with a greater army than before,


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and he removed from Jerusalem, and met them in the country of Hamath; for he gave them no respite to set foot in his country.


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And he sent spies into his camp, and they came again, and reported to him that they were appointed in such and such a way to fall upon them in the night season.


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But as soon as the sun was down, Jonathan commanded his men to watch, and to be in arms, that all the night long they might be ready for battle: and he put forth sentinels round about the camp.


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And the adversaries heard that Jonathan and his men were ready for battle, and they feared, and trembled in their hearts, and they kindled fires in their camp


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And Jonathan pursued after them, and overtook them not; for they were gone over the river Eleutherus.


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And Jonathan turned towards the Arabians, who are called Zabadaeans, and struck them, and took their spoils.


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And Simon went forth, and took his journey as far as Ascalon, and the strongholds that were near to it. And he turned towards Joppa, and took possession of it;


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for he had heard that they were minded to deliver the stronghold to the men of Demetrius; and he set a garrison there to keep it.


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And Jonathan returned, and called the elders of the people together; and he took counsel with them to build strongholds in Judea,


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and to make the walls of Jerusalem higher, and to raise a great mound between the citadel and the city, for to separate it from the city, that so it might be all alone, that men might neither buy nor sell.


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And they were gathered together to build the city, and there fell down part of the wall of the brook that is on the east side, and he repaired that which is called Chaphenatha.


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And Tryphon sought to reign over Asia and to put on himself the diadem, and to stretch forth his hand against Antiochus the king.


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And he was afraid lest perhaps Jonathan should not suffer him, and lest he should fight against him; and he sought a way how to take him, that he might destroy him. And he removed, and came to Bethshan.


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And Jonathan came forth to meet him with forty thousand men chosen for battle, and came to Bethshan.


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And Tryphon saw that he came with a great army, and he was afraid to stretch forth his hand against him:


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and he received him honourably, and commended him to all his  Friends, and gave him gifts, and commanded his forces to be obedient to him, as to himself.


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And he said to Jonathan, Why have you put all this people to trouble, seeing there is no war between us?


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And now send them away to their homes, but choose for yourself a few men who shall be with you, and come you with me to Ptolemais, and I will give it up to you, and the rest of the strongholds and the rest of the forces, and all the king’s officers: and I will return and depart; for this is the cause of my coming.


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And he put his trust in him, and did even as he said, and sent away his forces, and they departed into the land of Judah.


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But he reserved to himself three thousand men, of whom he left two thousand in Galilee, but one thousand went with him.


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Now as soon as Jonathan entered into Ptolemais, they of Ptolemais shut the gates, and laid hands on him; and all those who came in with him they killed with the sword.


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And Tryphon sent forces and horsemen into Galilee, and into the great plain, to destroy all Jonathan’s men.


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And they perceived that he was taken and had perished, and those who were with him; and they encouraged one another, and went on their way close together, prepared to fight.


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And those who followed upon them saw that they were ready to fight for their lives, and turned back again.


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And they all came in peace into the land of Judah, and they mourned for Jonathan, and those who were with him, and they were sore afraid; and all Israel mourned with a great mourning.


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And all the Gentiles that were round about them sought to destroy them utterly: for they said, They have no ruler, nor any to help them: now therefore let’s fight against them, and take away their memorial from amongst men.


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And Simon heard that Tryphon had gathered together a mighty army to come into the land of Judah, and destroy it utterly.


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And he saw that the people trembled and was in great fear; and he went up to Jerusalem, and gathered the people together;


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and he encouraged them, and said to them, You° yourselves know all the things that I, and my kindred, and my father’s house, have done for the laws and the sanctuary, and the battles and the distresses which we have seen:


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And now be it far from me, that I should spare my own life in any time of affliction; for I am not better than my kindred.


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However I will take vengeance for my nation, and for the sanctuary, and for our wives and children; because all the Gentiles are gathered to destroy us of very hatred.


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And they answered with a loud voice, saying, You are our leader instead of Judas and Jonathan your brother.


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And he gathered together all the men of war, and made haste to finish the walls of Jerusalem, and he fortified it round about.


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And he sent Jonathan the son of Absalom, and with him a great army, to Joppa: and he cast out those who were therein, and abode there in it.


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And Tryphon removed from Ptolemais with a mighty army to enter into the land of Judah, and Jonathan was with him in ward.


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And Tryphon knew that Simon was risen up instead of his brother Jonathan, and meant to join battle with him, and he sent ambassadors to him, saying,


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It is for money which Jonathan your brother owed to the king’s treasure, by reason of the offices which he had, that we hold him fast.


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And now send a hundred talents of silver, and two of his sons for hostages, that when he is set at liberty he may not revolt from us, and we will set him at liberty.


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And Simon knew that they spoke to him deceitfully; and he sends the money and the children, lest perhaps he should procure to himself great hatred of the people,


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And he sent the children and the hundred talents. And he dealt falsely, and didn’t set Jonathan at liberty.


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And after this Tryphon came to invade the land, and destroy it, and he went round about by the way that leads to Adora: and Simon and his army marched near him to every place, wherever he went.


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Now they of the citadel sent to Tryphon ambassadors, hastening him to come to them through the wilderness, and to send them food.


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And Tryphon made ready all his horse to come: and on that night there fell a very great snow, and he came not by reason of the snow. And he removed, and came into the country of Gilead.


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And Simon sent, and took the bones of Jonathan his brother, and buried him at Modin, the city of his fathers.


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And Simon builta monument upon the sepulchre of his father and his kindred, and raised it aloft to the sight, with polished stone behind and before.


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And he set up seven pyramids, one near another, for his father, and his mother, and his four kindred.


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And for these he made cunning devices, setting about them great pillars, and upon the pillars he fashioned  all manner of arms for a perpetual memory, and beside the  arms ships carved, that they should be seen of all that sail on the sea.


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and reigned in his stead, and put on himself the diadem of Asia, and brought a great calamity upon the land.


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And Simon built the strongholds of Judea, and fenced them about with high towers, and great walls, and gates, and bars; and he laid up food in the strongholds.


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And Simon chose men, and sent to king Demetrius, to the end he should give the country an immunity, because all that Tryphon did was to plunder.


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And king Demetrius sent to him according to these words, and answered him, and wrote a letter to him, after this manner:


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King Demetrius to Simon the high priest and  Friend of kings, and to the elders and nation of the Jews, greeting:


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The golden crown, and the palm branch, which you° sent, we have received: and we are ready to make a  steadfast peace with you, yes, and to write to our officers, to grant immunities to you.


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And whatever things we confirmed to you, they are confirmed; and the strongholds, which you° have built, let them be your own.


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As for any oversights and faults committed to this day, we forgive them, and the crown which you° owed us: and if there were any other toll exacted in Jerusalem, let it be exacted no longer.


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And if there be any amongst you meet to be enrolled in our court, let them be enrolled, and let there be peace between us.


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And the people began to write in their instruments and contracts, In the first year of Simon, the great high priest and captain and leader of the Jews.


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In those days he encamped against  Gazara, and compassed it round about with armies; and he made an engine of siege, and brought it up to the city, and struck a tower, and took it.


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And those who were in the engine leapt forth into the city; and there was a great uproar in the city:


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and they of the city tore their clothes, and went up on the walls with their wives and children, and cried with a loud voice, making request to Simon to give them  his right hand.


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And Simon was reconciled to them, and didn’t fight against them: and he put them out of the city, and cleansed the houses wherein the idols were, and so entered into it with singing and giving praise.


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And he put all uncleanness out of it, and placed in it such men as would keep the law, and made it stronger than it was before, and built therein a dwelling place for himself.


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But they of the citadel in Jerusalem were hindered from going forth, and from going into the country, and from buying and selling; and they hungered exceedingly, and a great number of them perished through famine.


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And they cried out to Simon, that he should give them his right hand; and he gave it to them: and he put them out from thence, and he cleansed the citadel from its pollutions.


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And he entered into it on the three and twentieth day of the second month, in  the hundred and seventy and first year, with praise and palm branches, and with harps, and with cymbals, and with viols, and with hymns, and with songs: because a great enemy was destroyed out of Israel.


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And he ordained that they should keep that day every year with gladness. And the hill of the temple that was by the citadel he made stronger than before, and there he lived, himself and his men.


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And Simon saw that John his son was avaliant man, and he made him leader of all his forces: and he lived in Gazara.


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And in  the hundred and seventy and second year king Demetrius gathered his forces together, and went into Media, to get him help, that he might fight against Tryphon.


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And Arsaces, the king of Persia and Media, heard that Demetrius was come into his borders, and he sent one of his princes to take him alive:


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and he went and struck the army of Demetrius, and took him, and brought him to Arsaces; and he put him in ward.


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And the land had rest all the days of Simon: and he sought the good of his nation; and and his authority and his glory was well-pleasing to them all his days.


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and he gathered together a great number of captives, and got the dominion of Gazara, and Bethsura, and the citadel, and he took away from it its uncleannesses; and there was none that resisted him.


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And they tilled their land in peace, and the land gave her increase, and the trees of the plains their fruit.


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The ancient men sat in the streets, they communed all of them together of good things, and the young men put on glorious and warlike apparel.


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He provided food for the cities, and furnished them with  all manner of munition, until the name of his glory was named to the end of the earth.


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and there ceased in the land any that fought against them: and the kings were discomfited in those days.


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And he strengthened all those of his people that were brought low: the law he searched out, and every lawless and wicked person he took away.


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And it was heard at Rome that Jonathan was dead, and even to Sparta, and they were exceedingly sorry.


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But as soon as they heard that his brother Simon was made high priest in his stead, and ruled the country, and the cities therein,


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they wrote to him on tables of brass, to renew with him the friendship and the confederacy which they had confirmed with Judas and Jonathan his kindred;


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And this is the copy of the letters which the Spartans sent:
The rulers of the Spartans, and the city, to Simon the high priest, and to the elders, and the priests, and the residue of the people of the Jews, our kindred, greeting:


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The ambassadors that were sent to our people made report to us of your glory and honour: and we were glad for their coming,


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and we did register the things that were spoken by them in the  public records after this manner: Numenius son of Antiochus, and Antipater son of Jason, the Jews’ ambassadors, came to us to renew the friendship they had with us.


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And it pleased the people to entertain the men honourably, and to put the copy of their words in the  public records, to the end that the people of the Spartans might have a memorial thereof: moreover they wrote a copy of these things to Simon the high priest.


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After this Simon sent Numenius to Rome with a great shield of gold of a thousand pound weight, in order to confirm the confederacy with them.


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for he and his kindred and the house of his father have made themselves strong, and have chased away in fight the enemies of Israel from them, and confirmed liberty to  Israel.


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And they wrote on tables of brass, and set them upon pillars in mount Sion: and this is the copy of the writing:
On the eighteenth day of Elul, in  the hundred and seventy and second year, and this is the third year of Simon the high priest,


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in Asaramel, in a great congregation of priests and people and princes of the nation, and of the elders of the country,  was it notified to us:


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Forasmuch as oftentimes there have been wars in the country, but Simon the son of Mattathias, the son of the sons of Joarib, and his kindred, put themselves in jeopardy, and withstood the enemies of their nation, that their sanctuary and the law might be established, and glorified their nation with great glory:


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and Jonathan assembled their nation together, and became their high priest, and was gathered to his people:


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and their enemies purposed to invade their country, that they might destroy their country utterly, and stretch forth their hands against their sanctuary:


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then rose up Simon, and fought for his nation, and spent much of his own substance, and armed the valiant men of his nation, and gave them wages:


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and he fortified the cities of Judea, and Bethsura that lies upon the borders of Judea, where the arms of the enemies were aforetime, and set there a garrison of Jews:


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and he fortified Joppa which is upon the sea, and Gazara which is upon the borders of Azotus, wherein the enemies lived aforetime, and placed Jews there, and set therein all things convenient for their restoration:


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and the people saw the  faith of Simon, and the glory which he thought to bring to his nation, and they made him their leader and high priest, because he had done all these things, and for the justice and the faith which he kept to his nation, and for that he sought by all means to exalt his people:


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and in his days things prospered in his hands, so that the Gentiles were taken away out of their country, and they also that were in the city of David, those who were in Jerusalem, who had made themselves a citadel, out of which they issued, and polluted all things round about the sanctuary, and did great hurt to its purity;


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and he placed Jews therein, and fortified it for the safety of the country and the city, and made high the walls of Jerusalem:


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for he had heard say, that the Jews had been called by the Romans friends and allies and kindred, and that they had met the ambassadors of Simon honourably;


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and that the Jews and the priests were well pleased that Simon should be their leader and high priest forever, until there should arise a faithful prophet;


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and that he should be captain over them, and should take charge of the sanctuary, to set them over their works, and over the country, and over the arms, and over the strongholds; and that he should take charge of the sanctuary,


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and that he should be obeyed by all, and that all instruments in the country should be written in his name, and that he should be clothed in purple, and wear gold;


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and that it should not be lawful for any of the people or of the priests to set at nothing any of these things, or to gainsay the words that he should speak, or to gather an assembly in the country without him, or to be clothed in purple, or wear a buckle of gold;


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but whoever should do otherwise, or set at nothing any of these things, he should be liable to punishment.


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and Simon accepted this, and consented to be high priest, and to be captain and  governor of the Jews and of the priests, and to be protector of all.


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And they commanded to put this writing on tables of brass, and to set them up within the precinct of the sanctuary in a conspicuous place;


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and moreover to put the copies thereof in the treasury, to the end that Simon and his sons might have them.


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And Antiochus son of Demetrius the king sent letters from the isles of the sea to Simon the priest and  governor of the Jews, and to all the nation;


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and the contents thereof were after this manner:
King Antiochus to Simon the chief priest and  governor, and to the nation of the Jews, greeting:


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Forasmuch as certain pestilent fellows have made themselves masters of the kingdom of our fathers, but my purpose is to claim the kingdom, that I may restore it as it was before; and moreover I have raised a multitude of foreign soldiers, and have prepared ships of war;


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moreover I am minded to land in the country, that I may punish those who have destroyed our country, and those who have made many cities in the kingdom desolate:


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Now therefore I confirm to you all the exactions which the kings that were before me remitted to you, and whatever gifts besides they remitted to you:


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but that Jerusalem and the sanctuary should be free: and all the arms that you have prepared, and the strongholds that you have built, which you have in your possession, let them remain to you:


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and everything owing to the king, and the things that shall be owing to the king from henceforth and for evermore, let them be remitted to you:


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moreover, when we shall have established our kingdom, we will glorify you and your nation and the temple with great glory, so that your glory shall be made manifest in all the earth.


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In  the hundred and seventy and fourth year went Antiochus forth into the land of his fathers; and all the forces came together to him, so that there were few men with Tryphon.


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And Antiochus encamped against Dor, and with him a hundred and twenty thousand men of war, and eight thousand horse.


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And he compassed the city round about, and the ships joined in the attack from the sea; and he vexed the city by land and sea, and suffered no man to go out or in.


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And Numenius and his company came from Rome, having letters to the kings and to the countries, wherein were written these things:


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The Jews’ ambassadors came to us as our friends and allies, to renew the old friendship and confederacy, being sent from Simon the high priest, and from the people of the Jews:


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It pleased us therefore to write to the kings and to the countries, that they should not seek their hurt, nor fight against them, and their cities, and their country, nor be allies with such as fight against them.


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If therefore any pestilent fellows have fled from their country to you, deliver them to Simon the high priest, that he may take vengeance on them according to their law.


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and to all the countries, and to  Sampsames, and to the Spartans, and to Delos, and to Myndos, and to Sicyon, and to Caria, and to Samos, and to Pamphylia, and to Lycia, and to Halicarnassus, and to Rhodes, and to Phaselis, and to Cos, and to Side, and to Aradus, and Gortyna, and Cnidus, and Cyprus, and Cyrene.


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But Antiochus the king encamped against Dor the second day, bringing his forces up to it continually, and making engines of war, and he shut up Tryphon from going in or out.


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And Simon sent him two thousand chosen men to fight on his side; and silver, and gold, and instruments of war in abundance.


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And he would not receive them, but set at nothing all the covenants which he had made with him aforetime, and was estranged from him.


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And he sent to him Athenobius, one of his  Friends, to commune with him, saying,
You° hold possession of Joppa and Gazara, and the citadel that is in Jerusalem, cities of my kingdom.


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The borders thereof you° have wasted, and done great hurt in the land, and got the dominion of many places in my kingdom.


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Now therefore deliver up the cities which you° have taken, and the tributes of the places whereof you° have gotten dominion without the borders of Judea:


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or else give me for them five hundred talents of silver; and for the harm that you° have done, and the tributes of the cities, other five hundred talents: or else we will come and subdue you.


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And Athenobius the king’s  Friend came to Jerusalem; and he saw the glory of Simon, and the cupboard of gold and silver vessels, and his great attendance, and he was amazed; and he reported to him the king’s words.


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And Simon answered, and said to him,
We have neither taken other men’s land, nor have we possession of that which appertains to others, but of the inheritance of our fathers; however, it was had in possession of our enemies wrongfully for a certain time.


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But as touching Joppa and Gazara, which you demand, they did great harm amongst the people throughout our country, we will give a hundred talents for them.
And he answered him not a word,


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but returned in a rage to the king, and reported to him these words, and the glory of Simon, and all that he had seen: and the king was exceedingly angry.


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And the king appointed Cendebaeus chief captain of the sea coast, and gave him forces of foot and horse:


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and he commanded him to encamp before Judea, and he commanded him to build up Kidron, and to fortify the gates, and that he should fight against the people: but the king pursued Tryphon.


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And Cendebaeus came to Jamnia, and began to provoke the people, and to invade Judea, and to take the people captive, and to kill them.


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And he built Kidron, and set horsemen there, and forces of foot, to the end that issuing out they might make outroads upon the ways of Judea, according as the king commanded him.


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And Simon called his two oldest sons, Judas and John, and said to them, I and my kindred and my father’s house have fought the battles of Israel from our youth, even to this day; and things have prospered in our hands, that we should deliver Israel oftentimes.


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But now I am old, and you° moreover, byhis mercy, are of a sufficient age: be you° instead of me and my brother, and go forth and fight for our nation; but let the help which is from heaven be with you.


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And he chose out of the country twenty thousand men of war and horsemen, and they went against Cendebaeus, and slept at Modin.


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And rising up in the morning, they went into the plain, and, behold, a great army came to meet them, of footmen and horsemen: and there was a brook between them.


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And he encamped near them, he and his people: and he saw that the people were afraid to pass over the brook, and he passed over first, and the men saw him, and passed over after him.


