OLD TESTAMENT

1 Maccabees 1:61

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61

They hung their babies around their necks, and their houses, and those who had circumcised them.

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Verse 61. After month. The officers took an account of the slain, (Grot.) or the dedication of the statue was renewed, or rather the king’s nativity was kept. 2 B. 6:7. Calmet.—But this would only occur once a-year. People were compelled to sacrifice on the same day of each month on which the statue had been dedicated. verse 62.

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