1 Maccabees 8:15
Good News Translation
They created a senate, and each day 320 senators came together to deliberate about the affairs of the people and their well-being.

New Revised Standard Version
but they have built for themselves a senate chamber, and every day three hundred twenty senators constantly deliberate concerning the people, to govern them well.

Contemporary English Version
Instead, they have built a meeting house where 320 senators meet each day to pass good laws for ruling their nation.

New American Bible
But they made for themselves a senate chamber, and every day three hundred and twenty men took counsel, deliberating on all that concerned the people and their well-being.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And that they had made themselves a senate house, and consulted daily three hundred and twenty men, that sat in counsel always for the people, that they might do the things that were right:

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And that they had made themselves a senate house, and consulted daily three hundred and twenty men, that sat in counsel always for the people, that they might do the things that were right:

1 Maccabees 8:13
That whom they had a mind to help to a kingdom, those reigned: and whom they would, they deposed from the kingdom: and they were greatly exalted.

1 Maccabees 8:14
And none of all these wore a crown, or was clothed in purple, to be magnified thereby.

1 Maccabees 8:16
And that they committed their government to one man every year, to rule over all their country, and they all obey one, and there is no envy nor jealousy amongst them.

1 Maccabees 8:17
So Judas chose Eupolemus, the son of John, the son of Jacob, and Jason, the son of Eleazar, and he sent them to Rome to make a league of amity and confederacy with them:

Context
1 Maccabees 8
14And none of all these wore a crown, or was clothed in purple, to be magnified thereby. 15And that they had made themselves a senate house, and consulted daily three hundred and twenty men, that sat in counsel always for the people, that they might do the things that were right: 16And that they committed their government to one man every year, to rule over all their country, and they all obey one, and there is no envy nor jealousy amongst them.…
Cross References
1 Maccabees 8:13
That whom they had a mind to help to a kingdom, those reigned: and whom they would, they deposed from the kingdom: and they were greatly exalted.

1 Maccabees 8:14
And none of all these wore a crown, or was clothed in purple, to be magnified thereby.

1 Maccabees 8:16
And that they committed their government to one man every year, to rule over all their country, and they all obey one, and there is no envy nor jealousy amongst them.

1 Maccabees 8:17
So Judas chose Eupolemus, the son of John, the son of Jacob, and Jason, the son of Eleazar, and he sent them to Rome to make a league of amity and confederacy with them:



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1 Maccabees 8:14
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