39
As for any oversight or fault committed unto this day, we forgive it, and the crown tax also which ye owe us; and if there were any other tribute paid in Jerusalem, it shall no more be paid.
40
And look who are meet among you to be in our court; let them be enrolled, and let there be peace between us.
41
Thus the yoke of the heathen was taken away from Israel in the hundred and seventieth year.
42
Then the people of Israel began to write in their documents and contracts: In the first year of Simon the high priest, the governor and leader of the Jews.
43
In those days Simon encamped against Gazara and besieged it round about. He made also an engine of war and set it by the city, and battered a certain tower and took it.
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