1. Then Gorgias took five thousand men, and a thousand of the best horsemen: and they removed out of the camp by night.
2. That they might come upon the camp of the Jews, and strike them suddenly: and the men that were of the castle were their guides.
3. And Judas heard of it, and rose up, he and the valiant men, to attack the king's forces that were in Emmaus.
4. For as yet the army was dispersed from the camp.
5. And Gorgias came by night into the camp of Judas, and found no man, and he sought them in the mountains: for he said: These men flee from us.
6. And when it was day, Judas shewed himself in the plain with three thousand men only, who neither had armour nor swords.