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THE FIFTH BOOK OF MACCABEES:
CONTAINING A RECORD OF EVENTS FROM THE TRANSLATION OF THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES INTO GREEK UNDER PTOLEMY PHILADELPHUS, (B.C. 277,) TO THE DEATH OF HEROD’s TWO SONS, IN THE FIFTH OR SIXTH YEAR BEFORE CHRIST.
CHAPTER IXa
B.C. 165
The history of the eight days of dedication.
When Judas had put flight to Ptolemy, and Nicanor, and Gorgias, and had slain their men; he himself and his troops returned into the country b of the holy house. And he commanded all the altars to be destroyed which Antiochus had ordered to be built and he removed all the idols which were in the sanctuary: and they built up a new altar, and he commanded sacrifices to be offered upon that. They prayed also to the great and good God, that He would bring forth the holy firec which might remain upon the altar: and fire came out from some stones of the altar and burned up the wood and the sacrifices and from it fire continued on the altar until the third carrying into captivityd. And then they kept the festival of the new altare for eight days, beginning on the twenty-fifth day of the month Casleu. And then they placed breadf on the table of the house of God, and lighted the lamps of the candlestick. And on each of these eight days they assembled for prayer and praise: and moreover, they appointed it an ordinance for every year to come.
(Hanukkah, which means “dedication” in Hebrew, commemorates the victory of the Maccabees over the Seleucid Empire and the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem during the 2nd century BCE. The festival celebrates the miracle of a small amount of oil that lasted for eight days when it was only expected to last for one, symbolizing hope and resilience)
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