50 And they placed incense on the altar, and they lit the lamps, which were on the lampstand, and they gave light in the temple.
51 And they placed the bread on the table, and they hung up the veils, and they completed all the works which they had begun.
52 And they arose before the morning, on the twenty-fifth day of the ninth month, (which is the month of Kislev) in the one hundred and forty-eighth year.
53 And they offered sacrifice, according to the law, on the new altar of holocausts that they made.
54 According to the time and according to the day, on which the Gentiles had contaminated it, on the same day, it was renewed with canticles, and lutes, and lyres, and cymbals.
55 And all the people fell upon their faces, and they adored, and they blessed, toward heaven, him that had prospered them.
56 And they kept the dedication of the altar for eight days, and they offered holocausts with joy, and sacrifices of salvation and praise.