OLD TESTAMENT

2 Maccabees 1:9

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Now see that you keep the days of the feast of tabernacles in the month Chislev in the one hundred eighty-eighth year.

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Verse 9. Scenopegia; that is the encenia, or feast of the dedication of the altar, called here scenopegia, or feast of the tabernacles, from being celebrated with the like solemnity. Challoner. Calmet. 10:6.—The real feast occurs in the month of Tisri. Calmet.

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