OLD TESTAMENT

2 Maccabees 11:3

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and to levy tribute on the temple, as on the other sacred places of the nations, and to put up the high priesthood for sale every year.

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Verse 3. Temple, as of a farm, by selling offices and requiring money of those who offered victims. 1 B. 10:42. Calmet.

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Or, on all the sacred places of the heathen

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