1 Maccabees 4:51-53

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁵¹ They placed the bread on the table and hung up the curtains. Thus they finished all the work they had undertaken.

⁵² Early in the morning on the twenty-fifth day of the ninth month, which is the month of Chislev, in the one hundred and forty-eighth year,^{[a] 53} they rose and offered sacrifice, as the law directs, on the new altar of burnt offering which they had built.