1 Maccabees 13:51
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
51 On the twenty-third day of the second month,[a] in the one hundred and seventy-first year, the Jews entered the citadel with shouts of praise, the waving of palm branches, the playing of harps and cymbals and lyres, and the singing of hymns and canticles, because a great enemy of Israel had been crushed.(A)
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- 13:51 The twenty-third day of the second month: June 3, 141 B.C.
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