1 Maccabees 13:42

42 Then the people of Israel began to write in their documents and contracts: In the first year of Simon the high priest, the governor and leader of the Jews.

1 Maccabees 13:42 In-Context

40 And look who are meet among you to be in our court; let them be enrolled, and let there be peace between us.

41 Thus the yoke of the heathen was taken away from Israel in the hundred and seventieth year.

42 Then the people of Israel began to write in their documents and contracts: In the first year of Simon the high priest, the governor and leader of the Jews.

43 In those days Simon encamped against Gazara and besieged it round about. He made also an engine of war and set it by the city, and battered a certain tower and took it.

44 And those who were in the engine leaped into the city, whereupon there was a great uproar in the city,