OLD TESTAMENT

1 Maccabees 5:42

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Now when Judas came near to the water brook, he caused the scribes of the people to remain by the brook, and commanded them, saying, “Allow no man to encamp, but let all come to the battle.”

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Verse 42. Scribes; tribunes, who kept a register of the soldiers. Menochius.—They were officers of great power.

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