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They went therefore to Rome, which was a very great journey, and came into the senate, where they spake and said.
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Judas Maccabeus with his brethren, and the people of the Jews, have sent us unto you, to make a confederacy and peace with you, and that we might be registered your confederates and friends.
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And this is the copy of the epistle which the senate wrote back again in tables of brass, and sent to Jerusalem, that there they might have by them a memorial of peace and confederacy:
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Good success be to the Romans, and to the people of the Jews, by sea and by land for ever: the sword also and enemy be far from them,