25. Wherefore being desirous that this nation also should be at rest, we have ordained and decreed, that the temple should be restored to them, and that they may live according to the custom of their ancestors.
26. Thou shalt do well therefore to send to them, and grant them peace, that our pleasure being known, they may be of good comfort, and look to their own affairs.
27. But the king's letter to the Jews was in this manner: King Antiochus to the senate of the Jews, and to the rest of the Jews, greeting.
28. If you are well, you are as we desire, we ourselves also are well.
29. Menelaus came to us, saying that you desired to come down to your countrymen, that are with us.
30. We grant therefore a safe conduct to all that come and go, until the thirtieth day of the month of Xanthicus,