1 Maccabees 2:45-48
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45 Then Mattathias and his friends went round about, and pulled down the altars:
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46 And what children soever they found within the coast of Israel uncircumcised, those they circumcised valiantly.
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47 They pursued also after the proud men, and the work prospered in their hand.
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48 So they recovered the law out of the hand of the Gentiles, and out of the hand of kings, neither suffered they the sinner to triumph.