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I permit you to mint your own coinage as money for your country,
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and I grant freedom to Jerusalem and the sanctuary. All the weapons which you have prepared and the strongholds which you have built and now hold shall remain yours.
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Every debt you owe to the royal treasury and any such future debts shall be canceled for you from henceforth and for all time.
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When we gain control of our kingdom, we will bestow great honor upon you and your nation and the temple, so that your glory will become manifest in all the earth."
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In the one hundred and seventy-fourth year Antiochus set out and invaded the land of his fathers. All the troops rallied to him, so that there were few with Trypho.
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Antiochus pursued him, and he came in his flight to Dor, which is by the sea;
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for he knew that troubles had converged upon him, and his troops had deserted him.
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So Antiochus encamped against Dor, and with him were a hundred and twenty thousand warriors and eight thousand cavalry.
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He surrounded the city, and the ships joined battle from the sea; he pressed the city hard from land and sea, and permitted no one to leave or enter it.
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Then Numenius and his companions arrived from Rome, with letters to the kings and countries, in which the following was written:
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"Lucius, consul of the Romans, to King Ptolemy, greeting.