2 Maccabees 11:29

29 Menelaus declared unto us that your desire is to return home and to follow your own business.

2 Maccabees 11:29 In-Context

27 And the letter of the king unto the nation of the Jews was in this manner: King Antiochus sendeth greeting unto the council and the rest of the Jews:

28 If ye fare well, we have our desire; we are also in good health.

29 Menelaus declared unto us that your desire is to return home and to follow your own business.

30 Therefore those who will depart shall have safe conduct with security till the thirtieth day of Xanthicus.

31 And the Jews shall use their own kind of meats and laws, as before; and none of them in any manner of ways shall be molested for things ignorantly done.