## The Book of Maccabees I Chapter 1

###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:1
[The Book of Maccabees I 1:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/1:1)

ויהי אחרי הכות אלכסנדרוס מלך מקדוניא את דריוש מלך פרס, וימלוך תחתיו.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
And it came to pass, after the triumph of Alexandros the Makedonian, son


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:2
[The Book of Maccabees I 1:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/1:2)

הוא אלכסנדרוס בן פוליפוס אשר יצא מארץ כיתים, וימלוך בארץ יון לראשונה.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
of Philippos, who first reigned in Hellas, who came out of the land of Khettiim, had defeated Dareios king of the Persians and the Medes:


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:3
[The Book of Maccabees I 1:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/1:3)

ויוסף להלחם מלחמות רבות, וילכד ערים בצורות, ויך את מלכי הארץ לפי חרב.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
And He fought a lot of battles, and took almost all the strong holds, and slew almost all the kings of the earth,


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:4
[The Book of Maccabees I 1:4](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/1:4)

וילך הלוך ונסוע עד קצווי ארץ, וייקח שלל גויים רבים.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
And went through to the ends of the earth, and took spoils of many nations,


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:5
[The Book of Maccabees I 1:5](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/1:5)

ויהי כי נכבשו כל הארצות לפניו, וירום לבו ויגבה מאוד.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
insomuch that the earth was quiet before him; whereupon he was exalted and his heart was lifted up.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:6
[The Book of Maccabees I 1:6](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/1:6)

ויאסוף עוד חיל גדול, וימלוך על ממלכות רבות בארצותם לגוייהם, ויהיו לו למס עובד.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
And he gathered a mighty strong host and ruled over countries, and nations, and kings, who became tributaries unto him.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:7
[The Book of Maccabees I 1:7](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/1:7)

ויהי אחר הדברים האלה, וייפול למשכב ויחל.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
And after these things he fell sick, and perceived that he should die.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:8
[The Book of Maccabees I 1:8](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/1:8)

וירא כי קרבו ימיו למות, ויקרא לכל שריו ועבדיו אשר גדלו אתו מנעוריו, ויחלק להם את מלכותו בעודנו חי.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
Wherefore he called his servants, such as were honourable, and had been brought up with him from his youth, and parted his kingdom among them, while he was yet alive.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:9
[The Book of Maccabees I 1:9](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/1:9)

וימלוך אלכסנדרוס שתים עשרה שנה וימות.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
So Alexander reigned twelve years, and then died.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:10
[The Book of Maccabees I 1:10](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/1:10)

ויהי אחרי מותו ויירשו שריו את כל מדינות מלכותו, וילכדו איש איש את ארצו.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
And his servants bare rule every one in his place. And after his death they all put crowns upon themselves;


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:11
[The Book of Maccabees I 1:11](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/1:11)

וישימו כתר מלכות בראשם, וימלכו הם וזרעם אחריהם ימים רבים, והרעות גברו מאוד בארץ.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
so did their sons after them many years: and evils were multiplied in the earth.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:12
[The Book of Maccabees I 1:12](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/1:12)

מהם יצא שורש רע על הארץ, הוא אנטיוכוס המפואר בן-אנטיוכוס, אשר היה בן ערובה ברומא.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
And there came out of them a wicked root, Antiochus surnamed Epiphanes, son of Antiochus the king, who had been an hostage at Rome,


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:13
[The Book of Maccabees I 1:13](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/1:13)

ותהי ראשית מלכותו בשנת שבע ושלושים ומאה למלכות יון.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
and he reigned in the hundred and thirty and seventh year of the kingdom of the Greeks.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:14
[The Book of Maccabees I 1:14](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/1:14)

ויהי בעת ההיא ויצאו אנשים בני-בלייעל מקרב ישראל, וידיחו את עם הארץ לאמור.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
In those days went there out of Israel wicked men, who persuaded many, saying,


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:15
[The Book of Maccabees I 1:15](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/1:15)

הבה נכרתה ברית את הגויים אשר סביבותינו, כי מאז אשר סרנו מאחריהם מצאונו צרות רבות ורעות.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
“Let us go and make a covenant with the heathen that are round about us: for since we departed from them we have had much sorrow.”


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:16
[The Book of Maccabees I 1:16](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/1:16)

וייטב הדבר בעיני העם, וישלחו מלאכים אל המלך, ויצווה המלך בידם ללכת בדרכי הגויים ובחוקותיהם.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
So this device pleased them well. Then certain of the people were so forward herein, that they went to the king, who gave them a license to do after the ordinances of the heathen,


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:17
[The Book of Maccabees I 1:17](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/1:17)

ויקימו בית משחק בירושלים במשפט הגויים, ולא מלו עוד את בניהם, ויעזבו את ברית הקודש ללכת בחקותם, ויתמכרו לעשות הרע בעיני ה'.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
whereupon they built a place of exercise at Jerusalem according to the customs of the heathen and made themselves uncircumcised, and forsook the holy covenant, and joined themselves to the heathen, and were sold to do mischief.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:18
[The Book of Maccabees I 1:18](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/1:18)

ויהי כשבת אנטיוכוס בטח על כסא מלכותו, וישאהו לבו לכבוש את ארץ מצרים ולהשתרר על שתי הממלכות.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
Now when the kingdom was established before Antiochus, he thought to reign over Egypt that he might have the dominion of two realms.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:19
[The Book of Maccabees I 1:19](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/1:19)

ויקום וילך ארצה מצרים, ואת עמו לקח עמו, ויהי לו רכב ופרשים ושנהבים ואוניות, מחנה כבד מאוד.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
Wherefore he entered into Egypt with a great multitude, with chariots, and elephants, and horsemen, and a great navy,


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:20
[The Book of Maccabees I 1:20](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/1:20)

וילחם את תלמי מלך מצרים. ויירא תלמי מפניו וינוס, והעם נפלו חללים חללים.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
and made war against Ptolemee king of Egypt: but Ptolemee was afraid of him, and fled; and many were wounded to death.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:21
[The Book of Maccabees I 1:21](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/1:21)

וילכוד כל עיר מבצר במצרים, ויבוז שלל רב מאוד.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
Thus they got the strong cities in the land of Egypt and he took the spoils thereof.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:22
[The Book of Maccabees I 1:22](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/1:22)

ויהי אחרי שובו מהכות את מצרים, בשנת שלוש וארבעים ומאה, ויעל על ישראל למלחמה, ויבוא בחיל כבד ועצום ירושלימה.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
And after that Antiochus had smitten Egypt, he returned again in the hundred forty and third year, and went up against Israel and Jerusalem with a great multitude,


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:23
[The Book of Maccabees I 1:23](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/1:23)

ויבוא בעזות מצח אל הקודש פנימה, ויקח את מזבח הזהב ואת המנורה ואת כל כליה, ואת שולחן הפנים ואת קערותיו ואת כפותיו, ואת המזרקות ואת פרוכת המסך ואת הכותרות, וכל עדי הזהב אשר לפני ההיכל, ויקצץ אותם.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
And entered proudly into the sanctuary, and took away the golden altar, and the candlestick of light, and all the vessels thereof, And the table of the shewbread, and the pouring vessels, and the vials, and the censers of gold, and the veil, and the crown, and the golden ornaments that were before the temple, all which he pulled off.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:24
[The Book of Maccabees I 1:24](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/1:24)

וייקח גם את הכסף ואת הזהב וכל כלי חמדה וכל אוצר טמון אשר מצא, וייקחם ויעבירם אל ארצו.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
He took also the silver and the gold, and the precious vessels: also he took the hidden treasures which he found.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:25
[The Book of Maccabees I 1:25](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/1:25)

ויך מכה רבה בעם, וידבר אליהם בגאווה ובוז.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
And when he had taken all away, he went into his own land, having made a great massacre, and spoken very proudly.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:26
[The Book of Maccabees I 1:26](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/1:26)

ויהי אבל גדול לישראל בכל מושבותם.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
Therefore there was a great mourning in Israel, in every place where they were,


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:27
[The Book of Maccabees I 1:27](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/1:27)

שרים וזקנים נאנחו, בחורים ובתולות אומללו, ופני נשים יפות חמרמרו.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
so that the princes and elders mourned, the virgins and young men were made feeble, and the beauty of women was changed.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:28
[The Book of Maccabees I 1:28](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/1:28)

חתן וכלה בחופתם ספדו ויילילו

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
Every bridegroom took up lamentation, and she that sat in the marriage chamber was in heaviness,


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:29
[The Book of Maccabees I 1:29](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/1:29)

אבלה נבלה הארץ על יושביה, ובכל בית יעקב תאניה ואנייה.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
and the land also was moved for the inhabitants thereof, and all the house of Jacob was covered with confusion.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:30
[The Book of Maccabees I 1:30](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/1:30)

ויהי מקץ שנתיים ימים, וישלח המלך את שר המסים על ערי יהודה, ויעל בעם כבד ירושלימה.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
And after two years fully expired the king sent his chief collector of tribute unto the cities of Juda, who came unto Jerusalem with a great multitude,


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:31
[The Book of Maccabees I 1:31](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/1:31)

וידבר אתם טובות, אך תוך ומרמה היו בלבבו.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
And spake peaceable words unto them, but all was deceit:


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:32
[The Book of Maccabees I 1:32](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/1:32)

כי כאשר האמינו לחלקת שפתיו, ויאספוהו העירה, וייפול עליה באגרוף רשע, ויהרוג עם רב מישראל.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
for when they had given him credence, he fell suddenly upon the city, and smote it very sore, and destroyed much people of Israel.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:33
[The Book of Maccabees I 1:33](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/1:33)

ויבוז את העיר, ויצת אש בקרבה, ויהרוס את הבתים ואת החומות מסביב.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
And when he had taken the spoils of the city, he set it on fire, and pulled down the houses and walls thereof on every side.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:34
[The Book of Maccabees I 1:34](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/1:34)

וייקח את הנשים ואת הטף ויוליכם בשבי, וינהג את מקניהם.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
But the women and children took they captive, and possessed the cattle.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:35
[The Book of Maccabees I 1:35](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/1:35)

ויבצר את עיר דוד בחומות גבוהות ומגדלים, ותהי להם למצודה.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
Then builded they the city of David with a great and strong wall, and with mighty towers, and made it a strong hold for them.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:36
[The Book of Maccabees I 1:36](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/1:36)

וישכן אנשי בלייעל בקרבה, ויתחזקו בה, ויצברו בה אוכל ונשק וכל רכוש ירושלים העבירו שמה.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
And they put therein a sinful nation, wicked men, and fortified themselves therein. They stored it also with armour and victuals, and when they had gathered together the spoils of Jerusalem, they laid them up there,


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:37
[The Book of Maccabees I 1:37](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/1:37)

ויארבו מעל המצודה למקדש ה', וישפכו דם נקי סביבותיו ויחללוהו, ותהי לשטן ולמוקש לישראל ימים רבים.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
and so they became a sore snare: For it was a place to lie in wait against the sanctuary, and an evil adversary to Israel.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:38
[The Book of Maccabees I 1:38](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/1:38)

וינוס כל אזרח בישראל מירושלים, וזרים ישבו תחתם. ותהי העיר זרה לזרעה, ותקיא את בניה.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
Thus they shed innocent blood on every side of the sanctuary, and defiled it: Insomuch that the inhabitants of Jerusalem fled because of them: whereupon the city was made an habitation of strangers, and became strange to those that were born in her; and her own children left her.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:39
[The Book of Maccabees I 1:39](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/1:39)

מקדשה היה לשמה, ומועדיה נהפכו לאבל.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
Her sanctuary was laid waste like a wilderness, her feasts were turned into mourning, her sabbaths into reproach her honour into contempt.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:40
[The Book of Maccabees I 1:40](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/1:40)

שבתו שבתותיה וכל כבודה לאין,

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
As had been her glory, so was her dishonour increased,


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:41
[The Book of Maccabees I 1:41](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/1:41)

ותרב חרפתה וקלונה מתפארתה והדריה.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
and her excellency was turned into mourning.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:42
[The Book of Maccabees I 1:42](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/1:42)

ויכתוב המלך אנטיוכוס אל כל מדינות מלכותו לאמור: אך תורה אחת וחוקה אחת לכל יושבי ארצנו.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
Moreover king Antiochus wrote to his whole kingdom, that all should be one people,


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:43
[The Book of Maccabees I 1:43](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/1:43)

ויעזבו כל עמי הארץ את חוקותיהם ויעשו כאשר ציוה אותם המלך.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
And every one should leave his laws: so all the heathen agreed according to the commandment of the king.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:44
[The Book of Maccabees I 1:44](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/1:44)

ויאותו גם רבים מבני ישראל ויזבחו לאלילים ויחללו את השבת.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
Yea, many also of the Israelites consented to his religion, and sacrificed unto idols, and profaned the sabbath.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:45
[The Book of Maccabees I 1:45](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/1:45)

וישלח המלך ספרים ביד הרצים אל ירושלים ולכל ערי יהודה, ויצוום ללכת בדרכי גויי הארץ.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
For the king had sent letters by messengers unto Jerusalem and the cities of Juda that they should follow the strange laws of the land,


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:46
[The Book of Maccabees I 1:46](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/1:46)

לבלתי הקריב עוד עולה ומנחה בקודש, ולבלתי הסך נסך לה', ולהפר את השבתות ואת המועדים.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
And forbid burnt offerings, and sacrifice, and drink offerings, in the temple; and that they should profane the sabbaths and festival days:


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:47
[The Book of Maccabees I 1:47](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/1:47)

לחלל את המקדש ואת הכוהנים, ולהקים במות ובתים לאלילים, ולהקריב בשר חזיר וכל בהמה טמאה.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
And pollute the sanctuary and holy people: Set up altars, and groves, and chapels of idols, and sacrifice swine’s flesh, and unclean beasts:


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:48
[The Book of Maccabees I 1:48](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/1:48)

ויצווה לבלתי המול להם כל זכר, ולשקץ את נפשותם בכל דבר פיגול, להעבירם מחוקות אלוהים ולשנות את דרכם.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
That they should also leave their children uncircumcised, and make their souls abominable with all manner of uncleanness and profanation: To the end they might forget the law, and change all the ordinances.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:49
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וכל איש אשר ימרה את פי המלך - מות יומת.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
And whosoever would not do according to the commandment of the king, he said, he should die.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:50
[The Book of Maccabees I 1:50](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/1:50)

אלה הדברים אשר העביר בכל מדינות מלכותו, ויפקד פקידים על הארץ לעשותם. וישלח לכל ערי יהודה, ויצוום לזבוח זבח.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
In the selfsame manner wrote he to his whole kingdom, and appointed overseers over all the people, commanding the cities of Juda to sacrifice, city by city.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:51
[The Book of Maccabees I 1:51](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/1:51)

וייסוגו רבים ממצות ה' וייצמדו לגויים, ותשחת כל הארץ לפניהם.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
Then many of the people were gathered unto them, to wit every one that forsook the law; and so they committed evils in the land;


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:52
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ויהי הם נוגשים את העם, ויתחבאו במערות ובכל מקום אשר מצאו שם מפלט.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
And drove the Israelites into secret places, even wheresoever they could flee for succour.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:53
[The Book of Maccabees I 1:53](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/1:53)

ויהי בשנת מאה וארבעים וחמש, בחמשה עשר יום לחודש כסלו, ויקימו שיקוץ משומם על מזבח ה', ויבנו במות בכל ערי יהודה מסביב.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
Now the fifteenth day of the month Casleu, in the hundred forty and fifth year, they set up the abomination of desolation upon the altar, and builded idol altars throughout the cities of Juda on every side;


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:54
[The Book of Maccabees I 1:54](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/1:54)

ויזבחו ויקטרו בחוצות העיר ולפני פתחי ביתם, ויקרעו את ספרי תורת ה' לקרעים, וישרפו אותם באש.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
And burnt incense at the doors of their houses, and in the streets. And when they had rent in pieces the books of the law which they found, they burnt them with fire.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:55
[The Book of Maccabees I 1:55](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/1:55)

וכל אשר נמצא אתו ספר ברית ה', וכל השומר את פי ה', היכו לפי חרב כאשר ציוה המלך.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
And whosoever was found with any the book of the testament, or if any committed to the law, the king’s commandment was, that they should put him to death.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:56
[The Book of Maccabees I 1:56](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/1:56)

כמשפט הזה עשו לבני ישראל מדי חודש בחודשו בהיקבץ העם אל הערים.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
Thus did they by their authority unto the Israelites every month, to as many as were found in the cities.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:57
[The Book of Maccabees I 1:57](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/1:57)

ובחמישה ועשרים יום לחודש זבחו את זבחיהם על הבמה אשר הקימו נוכח מזבח ה'.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
Now the five and twentieth day of the month they did sacrifice upon the idol altar, which was upon the altar of God.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:58
[The Book of Maccabees I 1:58](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/1:58)

והנשים אשר מלו את בניהן הומתו על פי המלך.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
At which time according to the commandment they put to death certain women, that had caused their children to be circumcised.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:59
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את העוללים תלו בצווארם, ואת המלים אותם הרגו בחרב ויבוזו את בתיהם.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
And they hanged the infants about their necks, and rifled their houses, and slew them that had circumcised them.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:60
[The Book of Maccabees I 1:60](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/1:60)

ורבים מבני ישראל דבקו בתורת ה' ויישמרו מאכול כל דבר טמא.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
Howbeit many in Israel were fully resolved and confirmed in themselves not to eat any unclean thing.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:61
[The Book of Maccabees I 1:61](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/1:61)

ויבחרו את המוות משקץ את נפשותם, ומחלל את ברית ה', וימותו.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
Wherefore the rather to die, that they might not be defiled with meats, and that they might not profane the holy covenant: so then they died


###### The Book of Maccabees I 1:62
[The Book of Maccabees I 1:62](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/1:62)

ויהי קצף גדול על כל ישראל.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
And there was very great wrath upon Israel.