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1 Maccabees 15:3
King James Version (1769 Blayney revision, with Apocrypha) · Berean Standard Bible
Forasmuch as certain pestilent men have usurped the kingdom of our fathers, and my purpose is to challenge it again, that I may restore it to the old estate, and to that end have gathered a multitude of foreign soldiers together, and prepared ships of war;
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