15 If therefore you have need of them, send some people to bring them to you. (WEB) 16 Seeing then that we are about to celebrate the purification, we write to you. You will therefore do well if you celebrate the days. (WEB) 17 Now God, who saved all his people, and restored the heritage to all, with the kingdom, the priesthood, and the consecration, (WEB)
2 Maccabees 2:15–17
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2 Maccabees 1:28–30
28 Punish those who oppress us and in arrogance shamefully entreat us. (WEB) 29 Plant your people in your holy place, even as Moses said.” (WEB) 30 Then the priests sang the hymns. (WEB)
1 Esdras 8:93–95
93 Let’s make an oath to the Lord about this, that we will put away all our foreign wives with their children, (WEB) 94 as seems good to you, and to as many as obey the Lord’s Law. (WEB) 95 Arise, and take action, for this is your task, and we will be with you to do valiantly.” (WEB)
2 Esdras 1:11–13
11 I have destroyed all the nations before them. In the east, I have scattered the people of two provinces, even of Tyre and Sidon, and have slain all their adversaries. (WEB) 12 Speak therefore to them, saying: (WEB) 13 “The Lord says, truly I brought you through the sea, and wher… (WEB)
1 Maccabees 12:21–23
21 It has been found in writing, concerning the Spartans and the Jews, that they are kindred, and that they are of the descendants of Abraham. (WEB) 22 Now, since this has come to our knowledge, you will do well to write to us of your prosperity. (WEB) 23 We moreover write on our p… (WEB)
Testament of Benjamin 2:15–17
15 Do ye also, therefore, give them to your children for an everlasting possession; for so did both Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob. (T12) 16 For all these things they gave us for an inheritance, saying: Keep the commandments of God, until the Lord shall reveal His salvatio… (T12)
2 Esdras 2:40–42
40 Take again your full number, O Zion, and make up the reckoning of those of yours who are clothed in white, which have fulfilled the law of the Lord. (WEB) 41 The number of your children, whom you long for, is fulfilled. Ask the power of the Lord, that your people, whic… (WEB)
Testament of Gad 2:16–18
16 Put away, therefore, jealousy from your souls, and love one another with uprightness of heart. (T12) 17 Do ye also therefore tell these things to your children, that they honour Judah and Levi, for from them shall the Lord raise up salvation to Israel. (T12) 18 For I know that a… (T12)
Psalms of Solomon 18:5–7
5 May God cleanse Israel against the day of mercy and blessing, Against the day of choice when (PSS) 6 Blessed shall they be that shall be in those days, He bringeth back His anointed. (PSS) 7 In that they shall see the goodness of the Lord which He shall perform for the generat… (PSS)
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