26 You will do well, therefore, if you send to them and grant them a pledge, so that our will becomes known, and they may be of good courage, and may look after their own needs.'
27 Truly, the letter of the king to the Jews was such as this: 'King Antiochus to the senate of the Jews, and to the rest of the Jews: greetings.
28 If you are well, such is what we desire. But we ourselves are also well.
29 Menelaus came to us, saying that you wished to come down to your own, who are among us.
30 Therefore, we grant a pledge of security to those who come and go, even until the thirtieth day of the month of Xanthicus,
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