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For all that we have decreed in your favour, shall stand in force. The strong holds that you have built, shall be your own.
39
And as for any oversight or fault committed unto this day, we forgive it, and the crown which you owed: and if any other thing were taxed in Jerusalem, now let it not be taxed.
40
And if any of you be fit to be enrolled among ours, let them be enrolled, and let there be peace between us.
41
In the year one hundred and seventy the yoke of the Gentiles was taken off from Israel.
42
And the people of Israel began to write in the instruments, and public records, The first year under Simon the high priest, the great captain and prince of the Jews.