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They saved the law from the hands of the Gentiles and of the kings and did not let the sinner triumph. (1 Maccabees 2, 48)
Therefore, my sons, be zealous for the law and give your lives for the covenant of our fathers. (1 Maccabees 2, 50)
Elijah, for his burning zeal for the law, was taken up to heaven. (1 Maccabees 2, 58)
Children! be courageous and strong in keeping the law, for by it you shall be glorified. (1 Maccabees 2, 64)
You shall also gather about you all who observe the law, and you shall avenge the wrongs of your people. (1 Maccabees 2, 67)
Pay back the Gentiles what they deserve, and observe the precepts of the law." (1 Maccabees 2, 68)
The lawbreakers were cowed by fear of him, and all evildoers were dismayed. By his hand redemption was happily achieved, (1 Maccabees 3, 6)
With great presumption and lawlessness they come against us to destroy us and our wives and children and to despoil us; (1 Maccabees 3, 20)
but we are fighting for our lives and our laws. (1 Maccabees 3, 21)
He then found that this exhausted the money in his treasury; moreover the income from the province was small, because of the dissension and distress he had brought upon the land by abolishing the laws which had been in effect from of old. (1 Maccabees 3, 29)
They unrolled the scroll of the law, to learn about the things for which the Gentiles consulted the images of their idols. (1 Maccabees 3, 48)
He proclaimed that those who were building houses, or were just married, or were planting vineyards, and those who were afraid, could each return to his home, according to the law. (1 Maccabees 3, 56)
