1 Maccabees 1:56
“And when they had rent in pieces the bookes of the Lawe which they found, they burnt them with fire.”
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1 Maccabees 1:56 Context
54Now the fifteenth day of the moneth Casleu, in the hundreth fourtie and fift yeere, they set vp the abomination of desolation vpon the Altar, and builded idole altars throughout the cities of Iuda, on euery side: 55And burnt incense at the doores of their houses, and in the streetes. 56And when they had rent in pieces the bookes of the Lawe which they found, they burnt them with fire. 57And wheresoeuer was found with any, the booke of the Testament, or if any consented to the Lawe, the kings commandement was, that they should put him to death. 58Thus did they by their authority, vnto the Israelites euery moneth, to as many as were found in the cities.
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And when they had rent in pieces the books of the law which they found, they burnt them with fire.
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