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Desisting from Battle on Shavuot
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A Pause in Fighting to Observe Shavuot
Setting out from there, they hastened to Scythopolis, which is seventy-five miles [120 km] from Jerusalem. [ . . . ] [T]hey thanked them and exhorted them to be well disposed to their race in the…
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Hyrcanus’ Request to Refrain from Battle on Shavuot
When Antiochus had set up a trophy at the Lycus river, after defeating Indates, the general of the Parthians, he remained there for two days, at the request of Hyrcanus the Jew on account of an…