27 Truly, the letter of the king to the Jews was such as this: "King Antiochus to the senate of the Jews, and to the rest of the Jews: greetings.
28 If you are well, such is what we desire. But we ourselves are also well.
29 Menelaus came to us, saying that you wished to come down to your own, who are among us.
30 Therefore, we grant a pledge of security to those who come and go, even until the thirtieth day of the month of Xanthicus,
31 so that the Jews may make use of their own foods and laws, just as also before, and so that none of them should endure any kind of trouble for things which have been done by ignorance.
32 And so, we have also sent Menelaus, who will talk with you.
33 Farewell. In the one hundred forty-eighth year, on the fifteenth day of the month of Xanthicus."