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"Judas Maccabeus with his brethren, and the people of the Jews, have sent us unto you to make a confederacy and peace with you, and that we might be registered your confederates and friends."
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and to entreat them that they would take the yoke from them; for they saw that the kingdom of the Grecians oppressed Israel with servitude.
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They went therefore to Rome, which was a very great journey, and came into the senate where they spoke and said,
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"Judas Maccabeus with his brethren, and the people of the Jews, have sent us unto you to make a confederacy and peace with you, and that we might be registered your confederates and friends."
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And this is the copy of the epistle which the senate wrote back on tablets of brass and sent to Jerusalem, that there they might have by them a memorial of peace and confederacy:
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