60 They put to death women who had circumcised their children, according to the commandment. (WEB) 61 They hung their babies around their necks, and their houses, and those who had circumcised them. (WEB)
1 Maccabees 1:60–61
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4 Maccabees 4:24–26
24 When he could by no means destroy by his decrees the obedience to the law of the nation, but saw all his threats and punishments without effect, (WEB) 25 for even women, because they continued to circumcise their children, were flung down a precipice along with them, k… (WEB)
2 Maccabees 6:9–11
9 and that they should kill those who didn’t choose to go over to the Greek rites. So the present misery was for all to see. (WEB) 10 For example, two women were brought in for having circumcised their children. These, when they had led them publicly around the city with… (WEB)
1 Maccabees 2:45–47
45 And Mattathias and his friends went around and pulled down the altars. (WEB) 46 They forcibly circumcised the boys who were uncircumcised, as many as they found in the coasts of Israel. (WEB) 47 They pursued the arrogant, and the work prospered in their hand. (WEB)
Psalms 106:36–38
36 They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them. 37 They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons. 38 They shed innocent blood— the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with bloo…
1 Maccabees 1:47–49
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Numbers 33:3–5
3 On the fifteenth day of the first month, on the day after the Passover, the Israelites set out from Rameses. They marched out defiantly in full view of all the Egyptians, 4 who were burying all their firstborn, whom the LORD had struck down among them; for the L…
Book of Jubilees 47:1–3
1 And in the seventh week, in the seventh year, in the forty-seventh jubilee, thy father went forth [2303 A.M.] from the land of Canaan, and thou wast born in the fourth week, in the sixth year thereof, in the [2330 A.M.] forty-eighth jubilee; this was the time… (JUB)
Joshua 5:6–8
6 For the Israelites had wandered in the wilderness forty years, until all the nation’s men of war who had come out of Egypt had died, since they did not obey the LORD. So the LORD vowed never to let them see the land He had sworn to their fathers to give us, a…
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