1 Maccabees 7:16 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

And they gave him credence: and he laid hands on threescore men of them, and slew them in one day, according to the word which the psalmist wrote,

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So they trusted him. But he seized sixty of them and killed them in one day. This was in keeping with the written word:

And they believed him. And he captured sixty of their men and killed them in one day, according to the word that is written:

And they believed him. And he took threescore of them, and slew them in one day, according to the word that is written:

But as soon as they began to trust him, he arrested 60 of them and put them all to death on the same day. As the scripture says,

They trusted him. Then he seized sixty men of them, and killed them in one day, according to the word which was written,

and they believed him. But he later arrested 60 of them and put them all to death in one day. This is what the Scriptures said would happen: