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2 Maccabees 5:12–14

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12He commanded his soldiers to cut down relentlessly everyone they met and to kill those who went into their houses.* 13Then there was massacre of young and old, destruction of boys, women, and children, and slaughter of young girls and infants.* 14Within the total of three days eighty thousand were destroyed, forty thousand in hand-to-hand fighting, and as many were sold into slavery as were killed.

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Cross references

  1. *1 Macc 1:24
  2. *1 Macc 1:24; 2:9