OLD TESTAMENT

2 Maccabees 10:6

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They observed eight days with gladness in the manner of the feast of tabernacles, remembering how not long before, during the feast of tabernacles, they were wandering in the mountains and in the caves like wild animals.

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Verse 6. Manner, with the like ceremonies and solemnity. Calmet.—Green branches might be procured in November and December, as those months in Palestine are as fine as our spring. Roger.

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Or, not long before they kept the feast of tabernacles by wandering

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