42 Then came there vnto him a company of Assideans, who were mightie men of Israel, euen all such as were voluntarily deuoted vnto the Lawe.
43 Also all they that fled for persecution ioyned themselues vnto them, and were a stay vnto them.
44 So they ioyned their forces, and smote sinfull men in their anger, and wicked men in their wrath: but the rest fled to the heathen for succour.
45 Then Mattathias & his friends went round about, and pulled downe the altars.
46 And what children soeuer they found within the coast of Israel vncircumcised, those they circumcised valiantly.
47 They pursued also after þe proud men, & the work prospered in their hand.
48 So they recouered the Law out of the hand of the Gentiles, and out of the hande of Kings, neither suffered they the sinner to triumph.
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