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But the king's letter to the Jews was in this manner: King Antiochus to the senate of the Jews, and to the rest of the Jews, greeting.
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If you are well, you are as we desire, we ourselves also are well.
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Menelaus came to us, saying that you desired to come down to your countrymen, that are with us.
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We grant therefore a safe conduct to all that come and go, until the thirtieth day of the month of Xanthicus,
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That the Jews may use their own Bind of meats, and their own laws as be- fore, and that none of them any manner of ways be molested for things which have been done by ignorance.