1 Maccabees 2:38
Good News Translation
So the enemy attacked them on the Sabbath and killed the men, their wives, their children, and their livestock. A thousand people died.

New Revised Standard Version
So they attacked them on the sabbath, and they died, with their wives and children and livestock, to the number of a thousand persons.

Contemporary English Version
On that Sabbath 1,000 Jewish men, women, and children were slaughtered, together with their sheep and goats.

New American Bible
So the officers and soldiers attacked them on the sabbath, and they died with their wives, their children and their animals, to the number of a thousand persons.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So they gave them battle on the sabbath: and they were slain, with their wives, and their children, and their cattle, to the number of a thousand persons.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

So they gave them battle on the sabbath: and they were slain, with their wives, and their children, and their cattle, to the number of a thousand persons.

1 Maccabees 2:36
But they answered them not, neither did they cast a stone at them, nor stopped up the secret places,

1 Maccabees 2:37
Saying: Let us all die in our innocency: and heaven and earth shall be witnesses for us, that you put us to death wrongfully.

1 Maccabees 2:39
And Mathathias and his friends heard of it, and they mourned for them exceedingly.

1 Maccabees 2:40
And every man said to his neighbour: If we shall all do as our brethren have done, and not fight against the heathens for our lives, and our justifications, they will now quickly root us out of the earth.

Context
1 Maccabees 2
37Saying: Let us all die in our innocency: and heaven and earth shall be witnesses for us, that you put us to death wrongfully. 38So they gave them battle on the sabbath: and they were slain, with their wives, and their children, and their cattle, to the number of a thousand persons. 39And Mathathias and his friends heard of it, and they mourned for them exceedingly.…
Cross References
1 Maccabees 2:36
But they answered them not, neither did they cast a stone at them, nor stopped up the secret places,

1 Maccabees 2:37
Saying: Let us all die in our innocency: and heaven and earth shall be witnesses for us, that you put us to death wrongfully.

1 Maccabees 2:39
And Mathathias and his friends heard of it, and they mourned for them exceedingly.

1 Maccabees 2:40
And every man said to his neighbour: If we shall all do as our brethren have done, and not fight against the heathens for our lives, and our justifications, they will now quickly root us out of the earth.



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1 Maccabees 2:37
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