Versions of the Bible are translations of the Bible into ... At his request the high priest sent seventy two scholars (six from each of the twelve tribes) from Jerusalem to Alexandria to translate ...

1 Maccabees is one of the deuterocanonical books of the Bible. 2 Macc is not a sequel ... BC and ends with the reign of John Hyrcanus as high priest (134-104 BC). The book can be very confusing ...