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• Therefore whereas we are now purposed to keep the purification of the temple upon the five and twentieth day of the month Casleu, we thought it necessary to certify you thereof, that ye also might keep it, as the feast of the tabernacles, and of the fire, which was given us when Neemias offered sacrifice, after that he had builded the temple and the altar. (2 Maccabees 1, 18)

• Now after many years, when it pleased God, Neemias, being sent from the king of Persia, did send of the posterity of those priests that had hid it to the fire: but when they told us they found no fire, but thick water; (2 Maccabees 1, 20)

• Then commanded he them to draw it up, and to bring it; and when the sacrifices were laid on, Neemias commanded the priests to sprinkle the wood and the things laid thereupon with the water. (2 Maccabees 1, 21)

• And the priests made a prayer whilst the sacrifice was consuming, I say, both the priests, and all the rest, Jonathan beginning, and the rest answering thereunto, as Neemias did. (2 Maccabees 1, 23)

• Now when the sacrifice was consumed, Neemias commanded the water that was left to be poured on the great stones. (2 Maccabees 1, 31)

• So when this matter was known, it was told the king of Persia, that in the place, where the priests that were led away had hid the fire, there appeared water, and that Neemias had purified the sacrifices therewith. (2 Maccabees 1, 33)

• And Neemias called this thing Naphthar, which is as much as to say, a cleansing: but many men call it Nephi. (2 Maccabees 1, 36)

• The same things also were reported in the writings and commentaries of Neemias; and how he founding a library gathered together the acts of the kings, and the prophets, and of David, and the epistles of the kings concerning the holy gifts. (2 Maccabees 2, 13)

• And among the elect was Neemias, whose renown is great, who raised up for us the walls that were fallen, and set up the gates and the bars, and raised up our ruins again. (Ecclesiasticus 49, 13)