1. THE brethren, the Jews that are in Jerusalem and they that are in the country of Judaea, send greeting to the brethren, the Jews that are throughout Egypt, and wish them good peace:
2. and may God do good to you, and remember his covenant with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, his faithful servants;
3. and give you all a heart to worship him and do his pleasure with a great heart and a willing soul;
4. and open your heart in his law and in his statutes, and make peace,
5. and hearken to your supplications, and be reconciled with you, and not forsake you in an evil time.
6. And now we here are praying for you.
7. In the reign of Demetrius, in the hundred threescore and ninth year, we the Jews have already written to you in the tribulation and in the extremity that has come upon us in these years, from the time that Jason and his company revolted from the holy land and the kingdom,
8. and set the gate on fire, and shed innocent blood: and we implored the Lord, and were heard; and we offered sacrifice and meal offering, and we lighted the lamps, and we set forth the show bread.
9. And now see that you⌃ keep the days of the feast of tabernacles of the month Chislev.
10. Written in the hundred fourscore and eighth year. THEY that are in Jerusalem and they that are in Judaea and the senate and Judas, to Aristobulus, king Ptolemy’s teacher, who is also of the stock of the anointed priests, and to the Jews that are in Egypt, send greeting and health.
11. Having been saved by God out of great perils, as men arrayed against a king, we thank him greatly.