OLD TESTAMENT

1 Maccabees 10:42

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Besides this, the five thousand shekels of silver which they received from the uses of the sanctuary from the revenue year by year is also released, because it belongs to the priests who minister there.

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Verse 42. They: former kings. Bible.—Bagoses exacted fifty drachmas for every lamb, before the daily sacrifice could be offered. Jos. Ant. xi. 7.

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