Mientras tanto, Judas Macabeo y sus compañeros se infiltraron secretamente en los pueblos, llamaron a sus parientes y reunieron en torno a sí a todos los que habían permanecido fieles al judaísmo, congregando unos seis mil hombres.
Then Judas Maccabeus, and they that were with him, went privily into the towns, and called their kinsfolks together, and took unto them all such as continued in the Jews' religion, and assembled about six thousand men.