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13         Why should we live any longer?”

14 Then Mattathias and his sons tore their clothes and put on mourning clothes, and they lamented.

Pagan worship refused

15 At that time, the king’s officers were enforcing the decrees to give up Jewish practice. They came to the town of Modein to make its people offer pagan sacrifice.

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