# 1 Maccabees 16:3

**Apocrypha.** Not part of the 66-book Protestant canon. Catholic and Orthodox churches accept these books as deuterocanonical.

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- Edition: kjv-apocrypha
- Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/1-maccabees/16/3
- Book: [1 Maccabees](https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/1-maccabees)
- Chapter: [1 Maccabees 16](https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/1-maccabees/16)
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But now I am old, and ye, by God’s mercy, are of a sufficient age: be ye instead of me and my brother, and go and fight for our nation, and the help from heaven be with you.