2 Maccabees 10:8
“They ordeined also by a common statute, and decree, That euery yeere those dayes should be kept of the whole nation of the Iewes.”
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2 Maccabees 10:8 Context
6And they kept eight dayes with gladnes as in the feast of the Tabernacles, remembring that not long afore they had helde the feast of the Tabernacles, when as they wandered in the mountaines, and dennes, like beasts. 7Therefore they bare branches, and faire boughes and palmes also, and sang Psalmes vnto him, that had giuen them good successe in clensing his place. 8They ordeined also by a common statute, and decree, That euery yeere those dayes should be kept of the whole nation of the Iewes. 9And this was the ende of Antiochus called Epiphanes. 10Now will wee declare the acts of Antiochus Eupator, who was the sonne of this wicked man, gathering briefly the calamities of the warres.
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They ordained also by a common statute and decree, That every year those days should be kept of the whole nation of the Jews.
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