39
We pardon any errors and offenses committed to this day. Plus, we cancel the crown tax that you owe. Whatever other tax has been collected in Jerusalem will not be collected any longer.
40
If any of you are qualified to be enrolled in our bodyguard, let them be enrolled. Finally, let there be peace between us.
41
In the year 170, the yoke of the Gentiles was removed from Israel.
42
The people of Israel began to write in their documents and contracts, "In the first year of Simon the great high priest, commander and leader of the Jews."
43
In those days, Simon camped against Gazara and surrounded it with troops. He made a siege engine and brought it up to the city. He battered and captured one tower.