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This is a copy of the letter that the Spartans sent: The rulers of the Spartans, with the city. To the high priest Simon, the elders, the priests, and the rest of the Jewish people, our brothers and sisters. Greetings!
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So they wrote to him on bronze tablets to renew with him the friendly alliance that they had established with his brothers Judas and Jonathan.
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The tablets were read before the assembly in Jerusalem.
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This is a copy of the letter that the Spartans sent: The rulers of the Spartans, with the city. To the high priest Simon, the elders, the priests, and the rest of the Jewish people, our brothers and sisters. Greetings!
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The envoys who were sent to our people have told us about your glory and honor, and we rejoiced when they came.
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We made this record in our public decrees concerning what they said: “Numenius, Antiochus' son, and Antipater, Jason's son, Jewish representatives, have come to renew their friendship with us.