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CityModin was the home town of the priest Mattathias and his sons, the Maccabees. There Mattathias refused the order of Antiochus Epiphanes to sacrifice to idols, launching the revolt. The family tomb was at Modin: Mattathias, Judas and Jonathan were buried there, and Simon raised over it a monument with seven pyramids. The site lies in the foothills between Jerusalem and the coast, near the modern city of Modiin; its exact location is uncertain.
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Modin was the home town of the priest Mattathias and his sons, the Maccabees. There Mattathias refused the order of Antiochus Epiphanes to sacrifice to idols, launching the revolt. The family tomb was at Modin: Mattathias, Judas and Jonathan were buried there, and Simon raised over it a monument with seven pyramids. The site lies in the foothills between Jerusalem and the coast, near the modern city of Modiin; its exact location is uncertain.
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