28. If you⌃ fare well, we have our desire: we ourselves also are in good health.
29. Menelaus informed us that your desire was to return home and follow your own business.
30. They therefore that depart home up to the thirties day of Xanthicus shall have our friendship, with full permission
31. that the Jews use their own proper meats and observe their own laws, even as heretofore; and none of them shall be in any way molested for the things that have been ignorantly done.
32. Moreover I have sent Menelaus also, that he may encourage you.
33. Fare you⌃ well. Written in the hundred forty and eighth year, on the fifteenth day of Xanthicus.
34. And the Romans also sent to them a letter in these words: Quintus Memmius and Titus Manius, ambassadors of the Romans, to the people of the Jews, greeting.
35. In regard to the things which Lysias the king’s kinsman granted you, we also give consent.
36. But as for the things which he judged should be referred to the king, send one forthwith, after you⌃ have advised thereof, that we may publish such decrees as befit your case; for we are on our way to Antioch.
37. Wherefore send some with speed, that we also may learn what is your mind.
38. Farewell. Written in the hundred forty and eighth year, on the fifteenth day of Xanthicus.