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1 Maccabees 5:12-15 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

12. Now, therefore, come and rescue us from their hands, for many of us have fallen.

13. And all our brothers, who were in the places of Tob, have been put to death. And they have led away as captives their wives, and their children, and their spoils. And they have slain nearly a thousand men in that place."

14. And while they were still reading these letters, behold, there arrived from Galilee other messengers, with torn garments, who announced according to these words:

15. saying that those of Ptolemais and Tyre and Sidon have assembled against them, "and all of Galilee has been filled with foreigners, in order to consume us."