1 Maccabees 1:59
Good News Translation
On the twenty-fifth of the month, these same evil people offered sacrifices on the pagan altar erected on top of the altar in the Temple.

New Revised Standard Version
On the twenty-fifth day of the month they offered sacrifice on the altar that was on top of the altar of burnt offering.

Contemporary English Version
On the twenty-fifth day of each month, the king's followers offered sacrifices on the altar they had put on top of the temple altar.

New American Bible
Any scrolls of the law that they found they tore up and burned.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they cut in pieces, and burnt with fire the books of the law of God:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they cut in pieces, and burnt with fire the books of the law of God:

1 Maccabees 1:57
On the fifteenth day of the month, Casleu, in the hundred and forty-fifth year, king Antiochus set up the abominable idol of desolation upon the altar of God, and they built altars throughout all the cities of Juda round about:

1 Maccabees 1:58
And they burnt incense, and sacrificed at the doors of the houses and in the streets.

1 Maccabees 1:60
And every one with whom the books of the testament of the Lord were found, and whosoever observed the law of the Lord, they put to death, according to the edict of the king.

1 Maccabees 1:61
Thus by their power did they deal with the people of Israel, that were found in the cities month after month.

Context
1 Maccabees 1
58And they burnt incense, and sacrificed at the doors of the houses and in the streets. 59And they cut in pieces, and burnt with fire the books of the law of God: 60And every one with whom the books of the testament of the Lord were found, and whosoever observed the law of the Lord, they put to death, according to the edict of the king.…
Cross References
1 Maccabees 1:57
On the fifteenth day of the month, Casleu, in the hundred and forty-fifth year, king Antiochus set up the abominable idol of desolation upon the altar of God, and they built altars throughout all the cities of Juda round about:

1 Maccabees 1:58
And they burnt incense, and sacrificed at the doors of the houses and in the streets.

1 Maccabees 1:60
And every one with whom the books of the testament of the Lord were found, and whosoever observed the law of the Lord, they put to death, according to the edict of the king.

1 Maccabees 1:61
Thus by their power did they deal with the people of Israel, that were found in the cities month after month.



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1 Maccabees 1:58
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