1 Maccabees 7:16-18

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

¹⁶So they trusted him; but he seized sixty of them and killed them in one day, in accordance with the word that was written,

¹⁷‘The flesh of your faithful ones and their blood
they poured out all around Jerusalem,
and there was no one to bury them.’

¹⁸Then the fear and dread of them fell on all the people, for they said, ‘There is no truth or justice in them, for they have violated the agreement and the oath that they swore.’

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