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2 Maccabees 5:26-27 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

26. And he slaughtered all those who were seen going out. And rushing throughout the city with armed men, he destroyed a vast multitude.

27. But Judas Maccabeus, who was the tenth, had withdrawn himself to a deserted place, and there he lived life among the wild beasts in the mountains, with his own. And they remained there, consuming herbs as food, lest they be partakers in the defilement.

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