OLD TESTAMENT

1 Maccabees 16:3

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But now I am old, and you moreover, by his mercy, are of a sufficient age. Take the place of me and my brother, and go out and fight for our nation; and let the help which is from heaven be with you.

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Verse 3. Be you. Greek and Syr. “you, by mercy of God, are of a proper age. Be you instead of me and my brother; (Jonathas, with whom Simon had governed. Calmet.) and going out, fight valiantly for,” and so forth Bible.

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