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Hands lift gold bowls and a censer from a wooden table.
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Historical Library · Deuterocanonical Literature
1 Maccabees 1

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· Greek

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Source edition: lxx-swete-1909

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    1 Maccabees 1:22

    The Temple Stripped

    From Conquest to Persecution · 1 Maccabees 1

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    22and the table for the presentation of the bread, and the libation vessels and the bowls and the golden censers and the curtain and the crowns and the gold decoration on the front of the temple—and he stripped it all off.

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