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If therefore any pestilent men are fled out of their country to you, deliver them to Simon the high priest, that he may punish them according to their law.
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These same things were written to king Demetrius, and to Attalus, and to Ariarathes, and to Arsaces,
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And to all the countries; and to Lampsacus, and to the Spartans, and to Delus, and Myndus, and Sicyon, and Caria, and Samus, and Pamphylia, and Lycia, and Alicarnassus, and Cos, and Side, and Aradus, and Rhodes, and Phaselis, and Gortyna, and Gnidus, and Cyprus, and Cyrene.
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And they wrote a copy thereof to Simon the high priest, and to the people of the Jews.
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But king Antiochus moved his camp to Dora the second time, assaulting it continually, and making engines: and shut up Tryphon, that he could not go out.
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And Simon sent to him two thousand chosen men to aid him, silver also, and gold, and abundance of furniture.
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And he would not receive them, but broke all the covenant that he had made with him before, and alienated himself from him.
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And he sent to him Athenobius one of his friends, to treat with him, saying: You hold Joppe, and Gazara, and the castle that is in Jerusalem, which are cities of my kingdom:
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Their borders you have wasted, and you have made great havock in the land, and have got the dominion of many places in my kingdom.
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Now therefore deliver up the cities that you have taken, and the tributes of the places whereof you have gotten the dominion without the borders of Judea.
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But if not, give me for them five hundred talents of silver, and for the havock that you have made, and the tributes of the cities other five hundred talents: or else we will come and fight against you.