1 Maccabees 13:27
“Simon also built a monument vpon the Sepulchre of his father and his brethren, and raised it aloft to the sight, with hewen stone behind and before.”
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1 Maccabees 13:27 Context
25Then sent Simon and tooke the bones of Ionathan his brother, and buried them in Modin the citie of his fathers. 26And all Israel made great lamentation for him, and bewailed him many daies. 27Simon also built a monument vpon the Sepulchre of his father and his brethren, and raised it aloft to the sight, with hewen stone behind and before. 28Moreouer hee set vp seuen pyramides one against another, for his father and his mother, and his foure brethren. 29And in these he made running deuices, about the which he set great pillars, and vpon the pillars he made all their armour for a perpetuall memory, and by the armour, ships carued, that they might be seene of all that saile on the sea.
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Simon also built a monument upon the sepulchre of his father and his brethren, and raised it aloft to the sight, with hewn stone behind and before.
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