1 Maccabees 13:42
“Then the people of Israel began to write in their instruments, and contracts, in the first yeere of Simon the high Priest, the gouernour, and leader of the Iewes.”
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1 Maccabees 13:42 Context
40And looke who are meet among you to be in our court, let them be inrolled, and let there be peace betwixt vs. 41Thus the yoke of the heathen was taken away from Israel, in the hundred and seuentieth yeere. 42Then the people of Israel began to write in their instruments, and contracts, in the first yeere of Simon the high Priest, the gouernour, and leader of the Iewes. 43In those dayes Simon camped against Gaza, and besieged it round about; he made also an engine of warre, and set it by the city, and battered a certaine towre, and tooke it. 44And they that were in the Engine leapt into the citie, whereupon there was a great vproare in the citie:
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Then the people of Israel began to write in their instruments and contracts, In the first year of Simon the high priest, the governor and leader of the Jews.
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