2 Maccabees 15:35
34. So every man praised toward the heaven the glorious Lord, saying, Blessed be he that hath kept his own place undefiled.35. He hanged also Nicanor's head upon the tower, an evident and manifest sign unto all of the help of the Lord.36. And they ordained all with a common decree in no case to let that day pass without solemnity, but to celebrate the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which in the Syrian tongue is called Adar, the day before Mardocheus' day.
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