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1 Maccabees 12:17

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17 We have commanded them to go also to you and greet you and deliver to you this letter from us concerning the renewal of our brotherhood.
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15 for we have the help which comes from Heaven for our aid; and we were delivered from our enemies and our enemies were humbled.
16 We therefore have chosen Numenius the son of Antiochus and Antipater the son of Jason, and have sent them to Rome to renew our former friendship and alliance with them.
17 We have commanded them to go also to you and greet you and deliver to you this letter from us concerning the renewal of our brotherhood.
18 And now please send us a reply to this."
19 This is a copy of the letter which they sent to Onias:
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.