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Furthermore, we grant them release from all other payments due to us from the tenth-part gifts, the taxes, the salt pits, and the crown taxes from now on.
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These exemptions are never to be canceled.
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Therefore, be sure to make a copy of this letter. Give it to Jonathan and display it in a prominent place on the holy mountain.
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King Demetrius saw that the land was quiet and that there was no opposition to him. So he dismissed his troops and sent them back to their homes. He kept only the foreign troops that he had recruited from the island nations. All the troops who had served under his predecessors hated him.
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Now Trypho had formerly been one of Alexander's supporters. He realized that the troops were grumbling against Demetrius. So he went to Imalkue the Arab, who was bringing up Antiochus the young son of Alexander.