1 Maccabees 14:20-22
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
20 This is a copy of the letter that the Spartans sent:
‘The rulers and the city of the Spartans to the high priest Simon and to the elders and the priests and the rest of the Jewish people, our brothers, greetings. 21 The envoys who were sent to our people have told us about your glory and honour, and we rejoiced at their coming. 22 We have recorded what they said in our public decrees, as follows, “Numenius son of Antiochus and Antipater son of Jason, envoys of the Jews, have come to us to renew their friendship with us.
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