1 Maccabees · Restored Names Edition · first paragraph
1Now when the nations round about heard that the altar was built and the sanctuary renewed as before, it displeased them very much.
2Wherefore they thought to destroy the generation of Jacob that was among them, and thereupon they began to slay and destroy the people.
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