Good News Translation
Then Mattathias gave them his blessing and died.

New Revised Standard Version
Then he blessed them, and was gathered to his ancestors.

Contemporary English Version
Mattathias blessed his sons, and then he died. His family buried him in their tomb near the town of Modein. This happened in the year 146 of the Syrian Kingdom, and everyone in Israel mourned for a long time.

New American Bible
Then he blessed them, and he was gathered to his ancestors.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he blessed them, and was joined to his fathers.

And he blessed them, and was joined to his fathers.

1 Maccabees 2:67
And you shall take to you all that observe the law: and revenge ye the wrong of your people.

1 Maccabees 2:68
Render to the Gentiles their reward, and take heed to the precepts of the law.

1 Maccabees 2:70
And he died in the hundred and forty-sixth year: and he was buried by his sons in the sepulchres of his fathers, in Modin, and all Israel mourned for him with great mourning.

1 Maccabees 3:1
Then his son Judas, called Machabeus, rose up in his stead.