2 Maccabees 1:19
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19For when our fathers were being led captive to Persia, the pious priests of that time took some of the fire of the altar and secretly hid it in the hollow of a dry cistern, where they took such precautions that the place was unknown to any one.
Copyright 1965, 1966 Division of Christian Education of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America.