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1 Maccabees 3:49 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" They brought the priests’ garments, the first fruits, and the tithes. They stirred up the Nazarites, who had accomplished their days. "

1 Maccabees 3:49

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47 They fasted that day, put on sackcloth, put ashes on their heads, tore their clothes,

48 and opened the book of the law, to learn about the things for which the Gentiles consulted the images of their idols.

49 They brought the priests’ garments, the first fruits, and the tithes. They stirred up the Nazarites, who had accomplished their days.

50 They cried aloud toward heaven, saying, “What should we do with these men? Where should we carry them away?

51 Your holy place is trampled down and profaned. Your priests mourn in humiliation.

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Judith 11:13

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"They are resolved to spend the first fruits of the grain and the tithes of the wine and the oil, which they had sanctified and reserved for the priests who stand before the face of our God in Jerusalem, which it is not fitting for any of the people so much as to touch with their hands."

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"They brought up the LORD’s ark, the Tent of Meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent. The priests and the Levites brought these up."

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Nehemiah 10:37

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"and that we should bring the first fruits of our dough, our wave offerings, the fruit of all kinds of trees, and the new wine and the oil, to the priests, to the rooms of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground to the Levites; for they, the Levites, take the tithes in all our farming villages."

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Exodus 35:21

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"They came, everyone whose heart stirred him up, and everyone whom his spirit made willing, and brought the LORD’s offering for the work of the Tent of Meeting, and for all of its service, and for the holy garments."

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1 Maccabees 3:1

"His son Judas, who was called Maccabaeus, rose up in his place."

1 Maccabees 3:2

"All his kindred helped him, and so did all those who joined with his father, and they fought with gladness the battle of Israel."

1 Maccabees 3:3

"He got his people great glory, and put on a breastplate like a giant, and bound his warlike harness around him, and set battles in array, protecting the army with his sword."

1 Maccabees 3:4

"He was like a lion in his deeds, and like a lion’s cub roaring for prey."

1 Maccabees 3:5

"He hunted and pursued the lawless, and he burned up those who troubled his people."

1 Maccabees 3:6

"The lawless shrunk back for fear of him, and all the workers of lawlessness were very troubled, and deliverance prospered in his hand."

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