The First Book of Maccabees 📚 All chapters | The Bible 🕎

1 Maccabees. The First book of Maccabees. The Old Testament. Douay-Rheims Version. Part of the Bible according to the Catholic and Orthodox canons. LibriVox recording. Public domain. 1 Maccabees is best-known for containing the narrative behind the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. It describes in detail the re-dedication of the Temple in Jerusalem and the lighting of the menorah. The 8 day rededication of the temple is described in 1 Maccabees 4;36-4;59 (listen from 0:30:53), though the name of the festival and the miracle of the lights do not appear here. Listen: 0:00:18 Chapters 1-5 0:26:17 Chapter 4 0:44:54 Chapters 6-11 1:30:10 Chapters 11-12