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Historical Library · Deuterocanonical Literature
1 Maccabees 8
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· Greek
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Source edition: lxx-swete-1909
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1 Maccabees 8:22
Bronze Tablets of Alliance
An Alliance with Rome · 1 Maccabees 8
Story guide: An artisan copies the agreement onto bronze tablets, which recipients in Jerusalem examine as a memorial of the alliance.
Open this scene in the reader →22And this is the copy of the document that they copied onto bronze tablets and sent to Jerusalem, to be there among them as a memorial of peace and alliance.
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