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1 Machabees 7:15-17 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

15. And he spoke to them peaceably: and he swore to them, saying: We will do you no harm nor your friends.

16. And they believed him. And he took threescore of them, and slew them in one day, according to the word that is written:

17. The flesh of thy saints, and the blood of them they have shed round about Jerusalem, and there was none to bury them.

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