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The First Book of Meqabyan is a canonical text only in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. Despite its name, it has no direct relation to the books of Maccabees found in the Catholic and Orthodox Bibles, presenting distinct narratives and characters, such as King Tseerutsaydan and the Meqabyan martyrs. The Ethiopian tradition considers it a historical and wisdom text, often cited for its moral laws.

1 Meqabyan

Chapter 28

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and after him childran lived havin abounded - there were from them ones who praise and honour JAH and don't demolish Him Command.

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There were prophets who spoke what were done and what will be done henceforth - and from him childran there were sinners who speak lies and who wrong persons ~ 'Adam firstborn child Qayel became evil and killed him bredda 'Abiel.

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JAH judged Judgemant on Qayel because him killed him bredda 'Abiel - and JAH vexed on Earth because she drank him blood.

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and JAH told Qayel - Where are thy bredda 'Abiel? - and Qayel in him heart arrogance said - 'Are mi mi bredda 'Abiel keeper?'

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'Abiel became a clean man - but Qayel became a sinner man by killin a kind man - him bredda 'Abiel.

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Again a kind child Siet were birthed ~ 'Adam birthed sixty childran ~ there are kind persons and evil persons from them.

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and there are kind persons from them ~ and there are persons who were prophets and them who were traitors and sinners.

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There are blessed persons who were kind persons - who fulfill them father 'Adam accord and all him told to him child Siet - Beginnin from 'Adam up til Noh who are a kind man who kept JAH LAW.

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and him sanctioned JAH LAW to him childran ~ him told them - 'Guard' - lest them demolish JAH LAW - and that them might tell to them childran like unto them father Noh told them - and that them might keep JAH LAW.

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and them lived while them taught them childran - persons birthed after them.

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But Satan lived when him spoke to them fathers - havin lodged in idols that reached to a grave and that have vows on them - and havin defeated the persons who told him alright - and when them did all that Satan - who are sin teacher - commanded them.

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and them lived when them worshipped the idols like unto them order - up til a kind man 'Abriham who fulfill JAH Accord.

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to him have lived firmed up in the LAW beforehand separate from him cousins - and JAH swore a oath with him - havin lodged in wind and fire.

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JAH swore to him that Him might give him a land of inheritance and that Him might give to him childran up til the Eternity.

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and Him swore to Yis'haq like unto him that Him might give him him father 'Abriham inheritance - and Him swore to Ya`iqob that Him might give him him father Yis'haq inheritance ~ Him swore to him like into Yis'haq.

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and Him separated them childran - who were birthed after them from Ya`iqob - from the twelve tribes of 'Isra'iel - and made them priests and kings ~ Him blessed them sayin - Abound and totally be many many.

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and Him gave them them father inheritance - however while Him fed them and loved them - them didn't quit saddenin JAH in all.

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and on the time Him destroyed them - at that time them will seek Him in worship - and them will return from sin and go toward JAH - to Him love them - and JAH shall pardon them.

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to bein nice to all Him Created - Him shall pardon them - and it are because them fathers Work that Him love them - yet it aren't because them ras selves Work.

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and Him streach forth Him Right Hand in plenty that Him might satta a hungry body - and Him reveal Him Eye to pardonin that Him might multiply grain to food.

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Him give food to crows chicks and to beasts that beg Him ~ on the time them cried toward Him - Him will save 'Isra'iel childran from them enemies hands who delayed from the time.

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and them will return toward sin again that them might sadden Him - and Him will arouse them enemies peoples in them area on them ~ them will destroy them and kill them and capture them.

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and again them will shout toward JAH in mournin and sadness - and there are the time when Him sent help and saved them by prophets hands.

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and there are the time when Him saved them by princes hands - and on the time them saddened JAH them enemies taxed them and captured them.

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and Daweet arose and saved them from the 'Iloflans hands; and again them saddened JAH - and JAH aroused on them peoples who worry them.

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and there are the time when Him saved them by Yoftahie hand - and again them forgot JAH Who saved them in them tribulation time. As JAH have brought the hardship on them - Him will arouse on them enemies who were evil who will firm up tribulation on them and totally capture them.

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and on the time them were worried by tribulation them were seized and again cried toward Him - and Him saved them by Giediewon hand - and again them saddened JAH by them hands Work.

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and again Him aroused on them peoples who firm up tribulation on them - and them returned and wept and cried toward JAH.

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and again Him saved them from peoples by Somson hand - and them rested a little from the tribulation. and them arose that them might sadden JAH by them former sin.

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and again Him aroused on them other peoples who worry them - and again them cried and wept toward JAH that Him might send help to them - and Him saved them from peoples by Bariq and Deebora hands.

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Again them lived a little season while them worshipped JAH - and again them forgot JAH in them former sin and saddened Him.

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and Him aroused on them other peoples who worry them - and again Him saved them by Yodeet hand and havin sat again a little season them arose that them might sadden JAH by them sin like unto formerly.

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and Him aroused on them peoples who rule them - and them cried and wept toward JAH to Him have struck on him head 'Abiemieliek who were a warrior who came that him might fight Yihuda country.

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and Him saved them by the childran in the area and by Matatyu hand - and on the time that warrior dead him army fled and were scattared - and 'Isra'iel childran followed and fought them up til 'Iyabboq - and them didn't preserve even one person from them.

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After this them waited a little and arose that them might sadden JAH - and Him aroused on them peoples who rule them - and again them totally cried toward JAH and JAH ignored them cryin and them mournin - to them have saddened JAH everytime - and to them have demolished Him LAW.

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and them captured and took them with them priests toward Babilon persons country.

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and then 'Isra'iel childran who were traitors didn't quit saddenin JAH while them worked sin and worshipped idols.

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JAH vexed that Him might destroy them one time in them sin ~ Hama havin introduced ten thousand gold in the king box - on the day when it were known - him lodged anger in the king 'Arthieksis reasonin - lest him preserve them childran in Fars country Beginnin from Hindekie and up til 'Ityopphya on the time him told him that him might destroy them.

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Him did thus - and him wrote a letter where a message were written by the king authority - and him gave him a seal in him hand that him might deliver toward Fars country.

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Him gave him a seal that him might destroy them on one day when him loved them to destroy them like unto the king commanded - but him commanded that him might introduce them money - the gold and the silver - toward the king box.

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and on the time 'Isra'iel childran heard this thing them totally cried and wept toward JAH - and them told it to Merdokyos - and Merdokyos told to 'Astier.

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and 'Astier said - 'Fast - beg - and all 'Isra'iel childran kindreds - cry toward JAH in the place where you are.'

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and Merdokyos wore sackcloth and sprinkled dust on him ras self - and 'Isra'iel childran fasted - begged - and entered repentance in the country where them were.

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and 'Astier were totally sad - and bein a queen she wore sackcloth ~ she sprinkled dust and shaved she head - and she didn't anoint perfume like unto Fars queens anoint perfume - and in she deep reasonin she cried and wept toward she fathers Creator JAH.

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and because this thing Him gave she bein loved alongside Fars king 'Arthieksis - and she made a kind lunch to she fathers Creator.

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and Hama and the king entered toward the lunch that 'Astier prepared - and like unto him loved that him might do on Merdokyos - JAH paid the hardship on that Hama - and them hanged him on a tall wood.

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The king letter were commanded that them might quit 'Isra'iel like unto them were in all them accord - and lest them tax them nor rob them nor wrong them nor take them money on them.

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As JAH shall pardon 'Isra'iel doin thus on the time them cried enterin repentance - it are that them might love them and honour them in Fars country where them lived - yet a king letter were commanded lest them destroy them country nor plunder them livestocks.

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and on them time them saddened Him - Him will arouse on them peoples who worry them ~ at that time them will totally weep and cry that Him might send them help to them and that Him might save them from peoples hand who firm up tribulation on them.

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