1 Maccabees 6:37
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And on the beast, there were strong wooden towers, which covered every one of them: and engines on them: and on every one, thirty valiant men who fought from above; and an Indian to rule the beast.[fn]
Footnotes
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thirty: the Greek and Old Latin both read 'thirty' (τριάκοντα / triginta); the Clementine Vulgate reads 'thirty-two.' Even thirty men on a single elephant howdah is physically implausible. Goldstein (AYB) suggests the underlying Hebrew had שָׁלִשִׁים (*šālīšīm*, "warriors/officers"), which was misread as שְׁלֹשִׁים (*šelōšīm*, "thirty") by the Greek translator.