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• I would give these to the priests, the sons of Aaron, for the altar. To the Levites ministering at Jerusalem I would give my tithe of wine and corn, olives, pomegranates and other fruits. Six years in succession I took the second tithe in money and went and paid it annually at Jerusalem. (Tobit 1, 7)

• Lysias, learning that the king was dead, established on the throne in succession to him his son Antiochus, whom he had brought up from childhood -- and styled him Eupator. (1 Maccabees 6, 17)

• Whereupon, Jonathan took command, in succession to his brother Judas. (1 Maccabees 9, 31)

• the beginning, end and middle of the times, the alternation of the solstices and the succession of the seasons, (Wisdom of Solomon 7, 18)

• There was also a covenant with David son of Jesse, of the tribe of Judah, a royal succession by exclusively linear descent, but the succession of Aaron passes to all his descendants. (Ecclesiasticus 45, 25)