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All the people agreed to grant Simon the right to act in accordance with these decisions.
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So Simon accepted and agreed to be high priest, to be commander and ethnarch of the Jews and priests, and to be protector of them all.
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And they gave orders to inscribe this decree on bronze tablets, to put them up in a conspicuous place in the precincts of the sanctuary,
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and to deposit copies of them in the treasury, so that Simon and his sons might have them.
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