1 Maccabees 5:14
Good News Translation
This letter was still being read when other messengers, who had torn their clothes in sorrow, arrived with a report from Galilee.

New Revised Standard Version
While the letter was still being read, other messengers, with their garments torn, came from Galilee and made a similar report;

Contemporary English Version
Before Judas finished reading this letter, messengers arrived from Galilee. They had torn their clothes to show their sorrow,

New American Bible
While they were reading this letter, suddenly other messengers, with garments torn, arrived from Galilee to deliver a similar message:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And while they were yet reading these letters, behold there came other messengers out of Galilee with their garments rent, who related according to these words:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And while they were yet reading these letters, behold there came other messengers out of Galilee with their garments rent, who related according to these words:

1 Maccabees 5:12
Now therefore come, and deliver us out of their hands, for many of us are slain.

1 Maccabees 5:13
And all our brethren that were in the places of Tubin, are killed: and they have carried away their wives, and their children, captives, and taken their spoils, and they have slain there almost a thousand men.

1 Maccabees 5:15
Saying, that they of Ptolemais, and of Tyre, and of Sidon, were assembled against them, and all Galilee is filled with strangers, in order to consume us.

1 Maccabees 5:16
Now when Judas and the people heard these words, a great assembly met together to consider what they should do for their brethren that were in trouble, and were assaulted by them.

Context
1 Maccabees 5
13And all our brethren that were in the places of Tubin, are killed: and they have carried away their wives, and their children, captives, and taken their spoils, and they have slain there almost a thousand men. 14And while they were yet reading these letters, behold there came other messengers out of Galilee with their garments rent, who related according to these words: 15Saying, that they of Ptolemais, and of Tyre, and of Sidon, were assembled against them, and all Galilee is filled with strangers, in order to consume us.…
Cross References
1 Maccabees 5:12
Now therefore come, and deliver us out of their hands, for many of us are slain.

1 Maccabees 5:13
And all our brethren that were in the places of Tubin, are killed: and they have carried away their wives, and their children, captives, and taken their spoils, and they have slain there almost a thousand men.

1 Maccabees 5:15
Saying, that they of Ptolemais, and of Tyre, and of Sidon, were assembled against them, and all Galilee is filled with strangers, in order to consume us.

1 Maccabees 5:16
Now when Judas and the people heard these words, a great assembly met together to consider what they should do for their brethren that were in trouble, and were assaulted by them.



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1 Maccabees 5:13
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