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Attribution: Septuagint (Greek Old Testament), The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint, ed. Henry Barclay Swete (Cambridge University Press, 1896-1912). TEI text from the Open Greek and Latin Project, First1KGreek (urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0527), CC BY-SA 4.0; tokenised edition lxx-swete by Nathan D. Smith (https://github.com/nathans/lxx-swete), CC BY-SA 4.0 (text), MIT (code). Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/); this derivative is released under the same licence. Re-cut into one line per verse by tools/greek_verses_index.py and filed by tools/build_repository.py; the wording is unchanged, and the only renumbering is the Psalter (title = verse 0 and the poem numbered from 1, ruled 2026-09-10; every label Swete prints is kept in corpus/greek/verses.tsv, column swete_verse).
Licence: CC-BY-SA 4.0 — Swete's Greek text via the Open Greek and Latin Project (First1KGreek, urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0527) and the tokenised edition nathans/lxx-swete, both CC BY-SA 4.0 (repository README + upstream license.md, read 2026-09-10; outputs/REPORT-W2-terms.md, LICENCES.md §12.1)
The text
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| 3:1 | Καὶ ἀνέστη Ἰούδας ὁ καλούμενος Μακκαβαῖος υἱὸς αὐτοῦ ἀντʼ αὐτοῦ. |
| 3:2 | καὶ ἐβοήθουν αὐτῷ πάντες οἱ ἀδελφοὶ αὐτοῦ, καὶ πάντες ὅσοι ἐκολλήθησαν τῷ πατρὶ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐπολέμουν τὸν πόλεμον Ἰσραὴλ μετʼ εὐφροσύνης. |
| 3:3 | καὶ ἐπλάτυνεν δόξαν τῷ λαῷ αὐτοῦ· καὶ ἐνεδύσατο θώρακα ὡς γίγας, καὶ συνεζώσατο τὰ σκεύη τὰ πολεμικὰ αὐτοῦ· πολέμους συνεστήσατο, σκεπάζων παρεμβολὴν ἐν ῥομφαίᾳ. |
| 3:4 | καὶ ὡμοιώθη λέοντι ἐν τοῖς ἔργοις αὐτοῦ, καὶ ὡς σκύμνος ἐρευγόμενος εἰς θήραν. |
| 3:5 | καὶ ἐδίωξεν ἀνόμους ἐξερευνῶν, καὶ τοὺς ταράσσοντας τὸν λαὸν αὐτοῦ ἐφλόγισεν· |
| 3:6 | καὶ συνεστάλησαν οἱ ἄνομοι ἀπὸ τοῦ φόβου αὐτοῦ, καὶ πάντες οἱ ἐργάται τῆς ἀνομίας συνεταράχθησαν, καὶ εὐοδώθη σωτηρία ἐν χειρὶ αὐτοῦ. |
| 3:7 | καὶ ἐπίκρανεν βασιλεῖς πολλούς, καὶ ηὔφρανεν τὸν Ἰακὼβ ἐν τοῖς ἔργοις αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἕως τοῦ αἰῶνος τὸ μνημόσυνον αὐτοῦ εἰς εὐλογίαν. |
| 3:8 | καὶ διῆλθεν ἐν πόλεσιν Ἰούδα, καὶ ἐξωλέθρευσεν ἀσεβεῖς ἐπʼ αὐτῆς, καὶ ἀπέστρεψεν ὀργὴν ἀπὸ Ἰσραήλ· |
| 3:9 | καὶ ὠνομάσθη ἕως ἐσχάτου τῆς γῆς, καὶ συνήγαγεν ἀπολλυμένους. |
| 3:10 | Καὶ συνήγαγεν Ἀπολλώνιος ἔθνη, καὶ ἀπὸ Σαμαρίας δύναμιν μεγάλην τοῦ πολεμῆσαι πρὸς Ἰσραήλ. |
| 3:11 | καὶ ἔγνω Ἰούδας, καὶ ἐξῆλθεν εἰς συνάντησιν αὐτῷ καὶ ἐπάταξεν αὐτὸν καὶ ἀπέκτεινεν· καὶ ἔπεσον τραυματίαι πολλοί, καὶ οἱ ἐπίλοιποι ἔφυγον. |
| 3:12 | καὶ ἔλαβον τὰ σκεύη αὐτῶν, καὶ τὴν μάχαιραν Ἀπολλωνίου ἔλαβεν Ἰούδας, καὶ ἦν πολεμῶν ἐν αὐτῇ πάσας τὰς ἡμέρας. |
| 3:13 | Καὶ ἤκουσεν Σήρων, ὁ ἄρχων τῆς δυνάμεως Συρίας, ὅτι ἤθροισεν Ἰούδας ἄθροισμα καὶ ἐκκλησίαν πιστῶν μεθʼ αὑτοῦ καὶ ἐκπορευομένων εἰς πόλεμον. |
| 3:14 | καὶ εἶπεν Ποιήσω ἐμαυτῷ ὄνομα, καὶ δοξασθήσομαι ἐν τῇ βασιλείᾳ, καὶ πολεμήσω τὸν Ἰούδαν καὶ τοὺς σὺν αὐτῷ καὶ τοὺς ἐξουδενοῦντας τὸν λόγον τοῦ βασιλέως. |
| 3:15 | καὶ προσέθετο καὶ ἀνέβη μετʼ αὐτοῦ παρεμβολὴ ἀσεβῶν ἰσχυρὰ βοηθῆσαι αὐτῷ, ποιῆσαι τὴν ἐκδίκησιν ἐν υἱοῖς Ἰσραήλ. |
| 3:16 | καὶ ἤγγισεν ἕως ἀναβάσεως Μεθωρών· καὶ ἐξῆλθεν Ἰούδας εἰς συνάντησιν αὐτῷ ὀλιγοστός. |
| 3:17 | ὡς δὲ ἴδαν τὴν παρεμβολὴν ἐρχομένην εἰς συνἀντησιν αὐτῷ, εἶπαν τῷ Ἰούδᾳ Τί δυνησόμεθα ὀλιγοστοὶ ὄντες πολεμῆσαι πρὸς πλῆθος τοσοῦτο; καὶ ἡμεῖς ἐκλελύμεθα ἀσιτοῦντες σήμερον. |
| 3:18 | καὶ εἶπεν Ἰούδας Εὔκοπόν ἐστιν συνκλεισθῆναι πολλοὺς ἐν χερσὶν ὀλίγων· καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν διαφορὰ ἐναντίον τοῦ οὐρανοῦ σώζειν ἐν πολλοῖς ἢ ἐν ὀλίγοις. |
| 3:19 | ὅτι οὐκ ἐν πλήθει δυνάμεως νίκη πολέμου ἐστίν, ἀλλ᾿ ἢ ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ ἰσχύς. |
| 3:20 | αὐτοὶ ἔρχονται πρὸς ἡμᾶς πλήθει ὕβρεως καὶ ἀνομίας, τοῦ ἐξᾶραι ἡμᾶς καὶ τὰς γυναῖκας ἡμῶν καὶ τὰ τέκνα ἡμῶν, τοῦ σκυλεῦσαι ἡμᾶς. |
| 3:21 | ἡμεῖς δὲ πολεμοῦμεν περὶ τῶν ψυχῶν ἡμῶν καὶ τῶν νομίμων ἡμῶν. |
| 3:22 | καὶ αὐτὸς συντρίψει αὐτοὺς πρὸ προσώπου ἡμῶν· ὑμεῖς δέ μὴ φοβηθῆτε ἀπʼ αὐτῶν. |
| 3:23 | ὡς δὲ ἐπαύσατο λαλῶν, ἐνήλατο ἐπʼ αὐτοὺς ἄφνω, καὶ συνετρίβη Σήρων καὶ ἡ παρεμβολὴ αὐτοῦ ἐνώπιον αὐτοῦ. |
| 3:24 | καὶ ἐδίωκον αὐτοὺς ἐν τῇ καταβάσει Βαιθωρὼν ἕως τοῦ πεδίου· καὶ ἔπεσον ἀπʼ αὐτῶν εἰς ἄνδρας ὀκτακοσίους· οἱ δὲ λοιποὶ ἔφυγον εἰς γῆν Φυλιστείμ. |
| 3:25 | καὶ ἤρξατο ὁ φόβος Ἰούδα καὶ τῶν ἀδελφῶν αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἡ πτόη ἔπιπτεν ἐπὶ τὰ ἔθνη τὰ κύκλῳ αὐτῶν. |
| 3:26 | καὶ ἤγγισεν ἕως τοῦ βασιλέως τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ, καὶ ὑπὲρ τῶν παρατάξεων Ἰούδα ἐξηγεῖτο πᾶν ἔθνος. |
| 3:27 | Ὡς δὲ ἤκουσεν Ἀντίοχος ὁ βασιλεὺς τοὺς λόγους τούτους, ὠργίσθη θμμῷ· καὶ ἀπέστειλεν καὶ συνήγαγεν τὰς δυνάμεις πάσας τῆς βασιλείας αὐτοῦ, παρεμβολὴν ἰσχυρὰν σφόδρα· |
| 3:28 | καὶ ἤνοιξεν τὸ γαζοφυλάκιον αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἔδωκεν ὀψώνια ταῖς δυνάμεσιν αὐτοῦ εἰς τὸν ἐνιαυτόν· καὶ ἐνετείλατο αὐτοῖς εἰς ἐνιαυτὸν εἶναι ἑτοίμους εἰς πᾶσαν χρείαν. |
| 3:29 | καὶ ἴδεν ὅτι ἐξέλειπεν τὸ ἀργύριον ἀπὸ τῶν θησαυρῶν· καὶ οἱ φόροι τῆς χώρας ὀλίγοι χάριν τῆς διχοστασίας καὶ πληγῆς ἧς κατεσκεύασεν ἐν τῇ γῆ. τοῦ ἆραι τὰ νόμιμα ἃ ἦσαν ἀφ᾿ ἡνερῶν τῶν πρώτων. |
| 3:30 | καὶ εὐλαβήθὴ μὴ οὐκ ἔχει ὡς ἅπαξ καὶ δὶς εἰς τὰς δαπάνας καὶ τὰ δόματα ἃ ἐδίδου ἔμπροσθεν δα ιλῃ χειρί, |
| 3:31 | καὶ ἠπορεῖτο τῇ ψυχῇ αὐτοῦ σφόδρα· καὶ ἐβουλεύσατο τοῦ πορευθῆναι εἰς τὴν Περσίδα, καὶ λαβεῖν τοὺς φόρους τῶν χωρῶν, καὶ συναγαγεῖν ἀργύριον πολύ. |
| 3:32 | καὶ κατέλειπεν Λυσίαν ἄνθρωπον ἔνδοξον καὶ ἀπὸ γένους τῆς βασιλείας ἐπὶ τῶν πραγμάτων τοῦ βασιλέως, ἀπὸ τοῦ ποταμοῦ Εὐφράτου ἕως τῶν ὁρίων Αἰγύπτου, |
| 3:33 | καὶ τρέφειν Ἀντίοχον τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ ἕως τοῦ ἐπιστρέψαι αὐτόν. |
| 3:34 | καὶ παρέδωκεν αὐτῷ τὰς ἡμίσεις τῶν δυνάμεων καὶ τοὺς ἐλέφαντας, καὶ ἐνετείλατο αὐτῷ περὶ πάντων ὦν ἐβούλετο, καὶ περὶ πάντων τῶν κατοικούντων τὴν Ἰουδαίαν καὶ Ἰερουσαλήμ, |
| 3:35 | ἀποστεῖλαι ἐπʼ αὐτοὺς δύναμιν, τοῦ ἐκρίψαι καὶ ἐξᾶραι τὴν ἰσχὺν Ἰσραὴλ καὶ τὸ κατάλιμμα Ἰερουσαλήμ, καὶ ἆραι τὸ μνημόσυνον αὐτοῦ ἀπὸ τοῦ τόπου, |
| 3:36 | καὶ κατοικῆσαι υἱοὺς ἀλλοτρίους ἐν πᾶσι τοῖς ὁρίοις αὐτῶν, καὶ κατακληρονομῆσαι τὴν γῆν αὐτῶν. |
| 3:37 | καὶ ὁ βασιλεὺς παρέλαβεν τὰς ἡμίσεις τῶν δυνάμεων τὰς καταλειφθείσας· καὶ ἀπῆρεν ἀπὸ Ἀντιοχίας, ἀπὸ πόλεως βασιλείας αὐτοῦ, ἔτους ἑβδόμου καὶ τεσσερακοστοῦ καὶ ἑκατοστοῦ· καὶ διεπέρασεν τὸν Εὐφράτην ποταμόν, καὶ διεπορεύετο τὰς ἐπάνω χώρας. |
| 3:38 | Καὶ ἐπέλεξεν Λυσίας Πτολεμαῖον τὸν Δορυμένους, Νικάνορα καὶ Γοργίαν, ἄνδρας δυνατοὺς τῶν φίλὼν τοῦ βασιλέως. |
| 3:39 | καὶ ἀπέστειλεν μετʼ αὐτῶν τεσσεράκοντα χιλιάδας ἀνδρῶν καὶ ἑπτακισχίλιον ἵππον, τοῦ ἐλθεῖν εἰς γῆν Ἰούδα καὶ καταφθεῖραι αὐτὴν κατὰ τὸν λόγον τοῦ βασιλέως. |
| 3:40 | καὶ ἀπῆραν σὺν πάσῃ τῇ δυνάμει αὐτῶν καὶ ἦλθον· καὶ παρέβαλον· πλησίον Ἀμμαοὺν ἐν τῇ γῇ τῇ πεδινῇ. |
| 3:41 | καὶ ἤκουσαν οἱ ἔμποροι τῆς χώρας τὸ ὄνομα αὐτῶν, καὶ ἔλαβον ἀργύριον καὶ χρυσίον πολὺ σφόδρα καὶ παῖδας· καὶ ἦλθον εἰς τὴν παρεμβολὴν τοῦ λαβεῖν τοὺς υἱοὺς Ἰσραὴλ εἰς πταῖδας· καὶ προσεγενήθησαν πρὸς αὐτοὺς δυνάμεις Συρίας καὶ γῆς ἀλλοφύλων. |
| 3:42 | Καὶ ἴδεν Ἰούδας καὶ οἱ ἀδελφοὶ αὐτοῦ ὅτι ἐπληθύνθη τὰ κακά, καὶ αἱ δυνάμεις παρεμβαλοῦσιν ἐν τοῖς ὁρίοις αὐτῶν· καὶ ἐπέγναωσαν τοὺς λόγους τῆς βασιλείας οὓς ἐνετείλατο ποιῆσαι τῷ λαῷ εἰς ἀπώλειαν καὶ συντέλειαν. |
| 3:43 | καὶ εἶπαν ἕκαστος πρὸς τὸν πλησίον αὐτοῦ Ἀναστήσωμεν τὴν καθαίρεσιν τοῦ λαοῦ ἡμῶν καὶ τῶν ἁγίων. |
| 3:44 | καὶ ἡθροίσθησαν ἡ συναγωγὴ τοῦ εἶναι ἐτοίμους εἰς πόλεμον, καὶ τοῦ προσεύξασθαι καὶ αἰτῆσαι ἔλεον καὶ οἰκτειρμούς. |
| 3:45 | καὶ Ἰερουσαλὴμ ἦν ἀοίκητος ὡς ἔρημος· οὐκ ἦν ὁ εἰσπορευόμενος καὶ ἐκπορευόμενος ἐκ τῶν γενημάτων αὐτῆς· καὶ τὸ ἁγίασμα καταπατούμενον, καὶ υἱοὶ ἀλλογενῶν ἐν τῇ ἄκρᾳ, κατάλυμα ἐν τοῖε ἔθνεσιν· καὶ ἐξήρθη τέρψις ἐξ Ἰακώβ, καὶ ἐξέλειπεν αὐλὸς καὶ κινύρα. |
| 3:46 | καὶ συνήχθησαν καὶ ἤλθοσαν εἰς Μασσηφὰ κατέναντι Ἰερουσαλήμ, ὅτι τόπος προσευχῆς εἰς Μασσηφὰ τὸ πρότερον τῷ Ἰσραήλ. |
| 3:47 | καὶ ἐνήστευσαν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ, καὶ περιεβάλλοντο σάκκους καὶ σποδὸν ἐπὶ τὰς κεφαλὰς αὐτῶν, καὶ διέρρηξαν τὰ ἱμάτια αὐτῶν. |
| 3:48 | καὶ ἐξεπέτασαν τὸ βιβλίον τοῦ νόμου, περὶ ὦν ἐξηρεύνων τὰ ἔθνη τὰ ὁμοιώματὰ τῶν εἰδώλων αὐτῶν. |
| 3:49 | καὶ ἤνεγκαν τὰ ἱμάτια τῆς ἱερωσύνης καὶ τὰ πρωτογενήματα καὶ τὰς δεκάτας· καὶ ἤγειραν τοὺς Ναζιραίους, οἳ ἐπλήρωσαν τὰς ἡμέρας· |
| 3:50 | καὶ ἐβόησαν φωνῇ εἰς τὸν οὐρανὸν λέγοντες Τί ποιήσαρμεν τούτοις, καὶ ποῦ αὐτοὺς ἀπαγάγωμεν ; |
| 3:51 | καὶ τὰ ἅγιά σου καταπεπάτηται καὶ βεβήλωται, καὶ οἱ ἱερεῖς σου ἐν πένθει καὶ ταπεινώσει. |
| 3:52 | καὶ ἰδοὺ τὰ ἔθνη συνῆκται ἐφʼ ἡμᾶς τοῦ ἐξᾶραι ἡμᾶς· σὺ οἶδας ἃ λογίζονται ἐφʼ ἡμᾶς. |
| 3:53 | πῶς δυνησόμεθα ὑποστῆναι κατὰ πρόσωπον αὐτῶν, ἐὰν μὴ σὺ βοηθήσῃς ἡμῖν ; |
| 3:54 | καὶ ἐσάλπισαν ταῖς σάλπιγξιν, καὶ ἐβόησαν φωνῇ μεγάλῃ. |
| 3:55 | Καὶ μετὰ τοῦτο κατέστησεν Ἰούδας ἡγουμένους τοῦ λαοῦ, χιλιάρχους καὶ ἑκατοντάρχους καὶ πεντηκοντάρχους καὶ δεκαδάρχους. |
| 3:56 | καὶ εἶπεν τοῖς οἰκοδομοῦσιν οἰκίαν καὶ μνηστευομένοις γυναῖκας καὶ φυτεύουσιν ἀμπελῶνας καὶ δειλοῖς, ἀποστρέφειν ἕκαστον εἰς τὸν οἶκον αὐτοῦ κατὰ τὸν νόμον. |
| 3:57 | καὶ ἀπῆρεν ἡ παρεμβολή, καὶ παρενεβάλοσαν κατὰ νότου Ἀμμαούμ. |
| 3:58 | καὶ εἶπεν Ἰούδας Περιζώσασθε, καὶ γενέσθε εἰς υἱοὺς δυνατούς· καὶ γίνεσθε ἕτοιμοι εἰς τὸ πρωὶ τοῦ πολεμῆσαι ἐν τοῖς ἔθνεσιν τούτοις τοῖς ἐπισυνηγμένοις ἐφʼ ἡμᾶς ἐξᾶραι ἡμᾶς καὶ τὰ ἅγια ἡμῶν. |
| 3:59 | ὅτι κρεῖσσον ἡμᾶς ἀποθανεῖν ἐν πολέμῳ, ἢ ἐφιδεῖν ἐπὶ τὰ κακὰ τοῦ ἔθνους ἡμῶν καὶ τῶν ἁγίων. |
| 3:60 | ὡς δʼ ἂν ᾖ θέλημα ἐν οὐρανῷ, οὕτως ποιήσει. |
Provenance
- title
- I Maccabees 3 (Greek, Swete)
- dialect
- greek
- source
- Swete, The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint (Cambridge 1896-1912), via nathans/lxx-swete; I Maccabees 3; verse table corpus/greek/verses.tsv (tools/greek_verses_index.py, outputs/REPORT-W2-ingest.md)
- licence
- CC-BY-SA 4.0 — Swete's Greek text via the Open Greek and Latin Project (First1KGreek, urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0527) and the tokenised edition nathans/lxx-swete, both CC BY-SA 4.0 (repository README + upstream license.md, read 2026-09-10; outputs/REPORT-W2-terms.md, LICENCES.md §12.1)
- share
- attribution
- attribution
- Septuagint (Greek Old Testament), The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint, ed. Henry Barclay Swete (Cambridge University Press, 1896-1912). TEI text from the Open Greek and Latin Project, First1KGreek (urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0527), CC BY-SA 4.0; tokenised edition lxx-swete by Nathan D. Smith (https://github.com/nathans/lxx-swete), CC BY-SA 4.0 (text), MIT (code). Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/); this derivative is released under the same licence. Re-cut into one line per verse by tools/greek_verses_index.py and filed by tools/build_repository.py; the wording is unchanged, and the only renumbering is the Psalter (title = verse 0 and the poem numbered from 1, ruled 2026-09-10; every label Swete prints is kept in corpus/greek/verses.tsv, column swete_verse).
- file
- Bible/Old Testament/I Maccabees/03.greek.swete.L0.txt
L0 witness
Cite as:
I Maccabees 3 (Greek, Swete). Swete, The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint (Cambridge 1896-1912), via nathans/lxx-swete; I Maccabees 3; verse table corpus/greek/verses.tsv (tools/greek_verses_index.py, outputs/REPORT-W2-ingest.md). Layers as published by the Kemetic project (Yousef Hanna), 2026: Coptic · Cairene · Kemetic, /doc/bible/old-testament/i-maccabees/03.greek.swete/. Septuagint (Greek Old Testament), The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint, ed. Henry Barclay Swete (Cambridge University Press, 1896-1912). TEI text from the Open Greek and Latin Project, First1KGreek (urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0527), CC BY-SA 4.0; tokenised edition lxx-swete by Nathan D. Smith (https://github.com/nathans/lxx-swete), CC BY-SA 4.0 (text), MIT (code). Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/); this derivative is released under the same licence. Re-cut into one line per verse by tools/greek_verses_index.py and filed by tools/build_repository.py; the wording is unchanged, and the only renumbering is the Psalter (title = verse 0 and the poem numbered from 1, ruled 2026-09-10; every label Swete prints is kept in corpus/greek/verses.tsv, column swete_verse).
What the layers are
The text as its witness or edition has it, original spelling; its dialect is a description and is never standardized.
For Egyptian texts: the transliteration with the editors' marks turned into the symbols ° * < > _ ^ (ruled 2026-09-10). For papyri: the edition's Leiden marks as the same symbols, and the editors' readings beside the scribe's as ‹scribe→editors› (ruled PAP-3).
Standardized Greco-Bohairic spelling and grammar, generated by code from the layer above under the rulings of the project.
The Kemetic alphabet, generated by code from L1.
Quoted translations where they exist, credited; otherwise model drafts, marked as drafts.