The Antiquities of the Jews, 13.72

Flavius Josephus  translated by William Whiston

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723. So Onias took the place, and built a temple, and an altar to God, like indeed to that in Jerusalem, but smaller and poorer. I do not think it proper for me now to describe its dimensions or its vessels, which have been already described in my seventh book of the Wars of the Jews.

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