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Workers carry ore baskets from a hillside mine in a visual essay on the reported mines of Spain.
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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 8:3

    The Mines of Spain

    An Alliance with Rome · 1 Maccabees 8

    Story guide: Workers carry ore from a hillside mine as the reports turn to Rome’s pursuit of silver and gold in Spain.

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    3and what they did in the land of Spain, to gain control of the silver and gold mines there,

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