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Therefore those who go home by the thirtieth day of Xanthicus will have our pledge of friendship and full permission
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for the Jews to enjoy their own food and laws, just as formerly, and none of them shall be molested in any way for what he may have done in ignorance.
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And I have also sent Menelaus to encourage you.
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Farewell. The one hundred and forty-eighth year, Xanthicus fifteenth."
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The Romans also sent them a letter, which read thus: "Quintus Memmius and Titus Manius, envoys of the Romans, to the people of the Jews, greeting.