1 Maccabees 1:58 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

They kept using violence against Israel, against those who were found month after month in the towns.

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They were unrelenting in attacking Israelites, all those who were identified as law-observant month after month throughout the towns.

And they burned frankincense, and they sacrificed before the doors of houses and in the streets.

And they burnt incense, and sacrificed at the doors of the houses, and in the streets.

Month after month these wicked people used their power against the Israelites caught in the towns.

Thus did they in their might to Israel, to those who were found month by month in the cities.

Month after month and in town after town, his soldiers tortured every faithful Jew they captured.