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So Jonathan put on the holy garments in the seventh month of the one hundred and sixtieth year, at the feast of tabernacles, and he recruited troops and equipped them with arms in abundance. (1 Maccabees 10, 21)
"And all the feasts and sabbaths and new moons and appointed days, and the three days before a feast and the three after a feast -- let them all be days of immunity and release for all the Jews who are in my kingdom. (1 Maccabees 10, 34)
And now see that you keep the feast of booths in the month of Chislev, in the one hundred and eighty-eighth year. (2 Maccabees 1, 9)
Since on the twenty-fifth day of Chislev we shall celebrate the purification of the temple, we thought it necessary to notify you, in order that you also may celebrate the feast of booths and the feast of the fire given when Nehemiah, who built the temple and the altar, offered sacrifices. (2 Maccabees 1, 18)
On the monthly celebration of the king's birthday, the Jews were taken, under bitter constraint, to partake of the sacrifices; and when the feast of Dionysus came, they were compelled to walk in the procession in honor of Dionysus, wearing wreaths of ivy. (2 Maccabees 6, 7)
And they celebrated it for eight days with rejoicing, in the manner of the feast of booths, remembering how not long before, during the feast of booths, they had been wandering in the mountains and caves like wild animals. (2 Maccabees 10, 6)
they thanked them and exhorted them to be well disposed to their race in the future also. Then they went up to Jerusalem, as the feast of weeks was close at hand. (2 Maccabees 12, 31)
After the feast called Pentecost, they hastened against Gorgias, the governor of Idumea. (2 Maccabees 12, 32)
All the days of the afflicted are evil, but a cheerful heart has a continual feast. (Proverbs 15, 15)
Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child, and your princes feast in the morning! (Ecclesiastes 10, 16)
Happy are you, O land, when your king is the son of free men, and your princes feast at the proper time, for strength, and not for drunkenness! (Ecclesiastes 10, 17)
If they make you master of the feast, do not exalt yourself; be among them as one of them; take good care of them and then be seated; (Ecclesiasticus 33, 1)