6 And they celebrated for eight days with joy, in the manner of the Feast of Tabernacles, remembering that, a little time before, they had celebrated the solemn days of the Feast of Tabernacles in mountains and caves, in the manner of wild beasts.
7 Because of this, they now preferred to carry boughs and green branches and palms, for him who had prospered the cleansing of his place.
8 And they decreed a common precept and decree, that all the people of the Jews should keep those days every year.
9 Now certainly Antiochus, who was called illustrious, held himself to be so at the passing of his life.
10 But next we will describe what happened with Eupator, the son of the impious Antiochus, abridging the evils which happened in the wars.
11 For when he assumed the kingdom, he appointed, over the affairs of the kingdom, a certain Lysias, leader of the Phoenician and Syrian military.
12 For Ptolemy, who was called Macer, decided to be strict in justice toward the Jews, especially because of the iniquity that had been done to them, and to deal with them peacefully.