1. Now Gorgias took five thousand infantry and a thousand picked cavalry, and this detachment set out at night
2. in order to fall upon the camp of the Jews in a surprise attack. Some from the citadel were his guides.
3. Judas heard of it and himself set out with his soldiers to attack the king’s army at Emmaus
4. while these forces were still scattered away from the camp.
5. During the night Gorgias came into the camp of Judas, and found no one there; so he sought them in the mountains, saying, “They are fleeing from us.”
6. But at daybreak Judas appeared in the plain with three thousand men; furthermore they lacked the helmets and swords they wanted.