26. And all Israel bewailed him with great lamentation. And they mourned him for many days.
27. And Simon built, over the sepulcher of his father and of his brothers, a building, lofty to see, of polished stone, front and back.
28. And he set up seven pyramids, one against another, for his father, and his mother, and his four brothers.
29. And around these he placed great columns; and upon the columns, weapons, as a continual memorial; and beside the weapons, carvings of ships, which might be seen by all those who sail the sea.
30. This is the sepulcher that he made in Modin, even to this day.
31. But Trypho, when he was on a journey with the young king, Antiochus, killed him by deceit.
32. And he reigned in his place, and he put on the diadem of Asia, and he caused great scourges upon the land.