1 Maccabees 4:56
Good News Translation
For eight days they celebrated the rededication of the altar. With great joy they brought burnt offerings and offered fellowship offerings and thank offerings.

New Revised Standard Version
So they celebrated the dedication of the altar for eight days, and joyfully offered burnt offerings; they offered a sacrifice of well-being and a thanksgiving offering.

Contemporary English Version
For eight days they celebrated the dedication of the new altar and offered gifts and sacrifices to thank the Lord and to ask his blessing.

New American Bible
For eight days they celebrated the dedication of the altar and joyfully offered burnt offerings and sacrifices of deliverance and praise.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they kept the dedication of the altar eight days, and they offered holocausts with joy, and sacrifices of salvation, and of praise.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they kept the dedication of the altar eight days, and they offered holocausts with joy, and sacrifices of salvation, and of praise.

1 Maccabees 4:54
According to the time, and according to the day wherein the heathens had defiled it, in the same was it dedicated anew with canticles, and harps, and lutes, and cymbals.

1 Maccabees 4:55
And all the people fell upon their faces, and adored, and blessed up to heaven, him that had prospered them.

1 Maccabees 4:57
And they adorned the front of the temple with crowns of gold, and escutcheons, and they renewed the gates, and the chambers, and hanged doors upon them.

1 Maccabees 4:58
And there was exceeding great joy among the people, and the reproach of the Gentiles was turned away.

Context
1 Maccabees 4
55And all the people fell upon their faces, and adored, and blessed up to heaven, him that had prospered them. 56And they kept the dedication of the altar eight days, and they offered holocausts with joy, and sacrifices of salvation, and of praise. 57And they adorned the front of the temple with crowns of gold, and escutcheons, and they renewed the gates, and the chambers, and hanged doors upon them.…
Cross References
1 Maccabees 4:54
According to the time, and according to the day wherein the heathens had defiled it, in the same was it dedicated anew with canticles, and harps, and lutes, and cymbals.

1 Maccabees 4:55
And all the people fell upon their faces, and adored, and blessed up to heaven, him that had prospered them.

1 Maccabees 4:57
And they adorned the front of the temple with crowns of gold, and escutcheons, and they renewed the gates, and the chambers, and hanged doors upon them.

1 Maccabees 4:58
And there was exceeding great joy among the people, and the reproach of the Gentiles was turned away.



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