31. And when he was come thither, having called together his countrymen, and the priests to the altar, he sent also for them that were in the castle,
32. And shewing them the head of Nicenor, and the wicked hand, which he had stretched out, with proud boasts, against the holy house of the Almighty God,
33. He commanded also, that the tongue of the wicked Nicanor, should be cut out and given by pieces to birds, and the hand of the furious man to be hanged up over against the temple.
34. Then all blessed the Lord of heaven, saying: Blessed be he that hath kept his own place undefiled.
35. And he hung up Nicanor's head in the top of the castle, that it might be an evident and manifest sign of the help of God.
36. And they all ordained by a common decree, by no means to let this day pass without solemnity:
37. But to celebrate the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, called, in the Syrian language, the day before Mardochias' day.
38. So these things being done with relation to Nicanor, and from that time the city being possessed by the Hebrews, I also will here make an end of my narration.