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Two messengers carry wrapped papyrus packets along a Judean ridge path.
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Historical Library · Deuterocanonical Literature
1 Maccabees 1

The available numbered POB Greek working edition, retaining each record’s declared source edition and notes. Artwork interprets this book’s account. Appearance, clothing and staging are interpretive; material from 2 Maccabees is not imported.

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· Greek

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Source edition: lxx-swete-1909

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    1 Maccabees 1:44

    Letters Sent to Judah

    From Conquest to Persecution · 1 Maccabees 1

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    44And the king sent letters by the hand of messengers to Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, that they should follow laws foreign to the land,

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