1 Maccabees 1:13 Context

¹¹In those daies went there out of Israel wicked men, who perswaded many, saying, Let vs goe, and make a couenant with the heathen, that are round about vs: for since we departed from them, we haue had much sorrow. ¹²So this deuise pleased them well. ¹³Then certaine of the people were so forward heerein, that they went to the king, who gaue them licence to doe after the ordinances of the heathen. ¹⁴Whereupon they built a place of exercise at Ierusalem, according to the customes of the heathen, ¹⁵And made themselues, vncircumcised, and forsooke the holy couenant, and ioyned themselues to the heathen, and were sold to doe mischiefe.

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