1 Maccabees 13:40

40 And if any of you are qualified to be enrolled in our bodyguard, let them be enrolled, and let there be peace between us."

1 Maccabees 13:40 In-Context

38 All the grants that we have made to you remain valid, and let the strongholds that you have built be your possession.

39 We pardon any errors and offenses committed to this day, and cancel the crown tax that you owe; and whatever other tax has been collected in Jerusalem shall be collected no longer.

40 And if any of you are qualified to be enrolled in our bodyguard, let them be enrolled, and let there be peace between us."

41 In the one hundred seventieth year the yoke of the Gentiles was removed from Israel,

42 and the people began to write in their documents and contracts, "In the first year of Simon the great high priest and commander and leader of the Jews."

Footnotes

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