1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible

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I Maccabees 10:39 Ptolemais, and the confines thereof, I give as a free gift to the holy places, that are in Jerusalem, for the necessary charges of the holy things.

Ptolemais. This was not a great present, as it was in the hands of his rival. But he wished the Jews to retake it.