OLD TESTAMENT

2 Maccabees 12:39

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39

On the following day, when it had become necessary, Judas and his company came to take up the bodies of those who had fallen, and in company with their kinsmen to bring them back to the sepulchres of their ancestors.

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Verse 39. Following, on Saturday evening, or on Sunday.—Fathers, with those of the same nation.

EXPLANATION

The Greek text here is uncertain.

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Or, and to bring them back to be with their kinsmen in the sepulchres

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