12
For their victuals fail them, and all their water is scant, and they have determined to lay hands upon their cattle, and purposed to consume all those things, that God hath forbidden them to eat by his laws:
13
And are resolved to spend the firstfruits of the the tenths of wine and oil, which they had sanctified, and reserved for the priests that serve in Jerusalem before the face of our God; the which things it is not lawful for any of the people so much as to touch with their hands.
14
For they have sent some to Jerusalem, because they also that dwell there have done the like, to bring them a licence from the senate.
15
Now when they shall bring them word, they will forthwith do it, and they shall be given to thee to be destroyed the same day.
16
Wherefore I thine handmaid, knowing all this, am fled from their presence; and God hath sent me to work things with thee, whereat all the earth shall be astonished, and whosoever shall hear it.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.