2 Maccabees 12:39 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition And upon the day following, as the use had been, Judas and his company came to take up the bodies of them that were slain, and to bury them with their kinsmen in their fathers' graves. More versionsCommon English Bible On the next day, it was necessary for Judas and his men to recover the bodies of the fallen and to bury them with their relatives in the ancestral tombs. Catholic Public Domain Version And the following day, Judas came with his own, in order to take away the bodies of the fallen, and to place them in the sepulchers of their fathers with their ancestors. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the day following Judas cam with his company, to take away the bodies of them that were slain, and to bury them with their kinsmen, in the sepulchres of their fathers. Good News Translation (US Version) By the following day it was urgent that they gather up the bodies of the men who had been killed in battle and bury them in their family tombs. World English Bible - American English Edition - without Strong's Numbers On the following day, when it had become necessary, Judas and his company came to take up the bodies of those who had fallen, and in company with their kinsmen to bring them back to the sepulchres of their ancestors. Contemporary English Version Interconfessional Edition The next day, Judas and his troops had to collect the bodies of those who had been killed in battle and to bring them home for burial in their family graves. |