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,