9 We are now reminding you to celebrate the feast of Booths in the month of Kislev.
10 Dated in the one hundred and eighty-eighth year. The people of Jerusalem and Judea, the senate, and Judas send greetings and good wishes to Aristobulus, teacher of King Ptolemy and member of the family of the anointed priests, and to the Jews in Egypt.
11 Since we have been saved by God from grave dangers, we give him great thanks as befits those who fought against the king;
12 for it was God who drove out those who fought against the holy city.
13 When their leader arrived in Persia with his seemingly irresistible army, they were cut to pieces in the temple of the goddess Nanea through a deceitful stratagem employed by Nanea’s priests.
14 On the pretext of marrying the goddess, Antiochus with his Friends had come to the place to get its great treasures as a dowry.
15 When the priests of Nanea’s temple had displayed the treasures and Antiochus with a few attendants had come inside the wall of the temple precincts, the priests locked the temple as soon as he entered.