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Official honors for Simon

25 When the people heard these things they said, “How should we thank Simon and his sons? 26 He and his brothers, and his father’s family, have stood firm. They have fought and repelled Israel’s enemies and established our freedom.” So they made a written record on bronze plaques and put it on pillars on Mount Zion. 27 This is a copy of the document:

On the eighteenth day of Elul,[a] in the year 172, the third year of the great high priest Simon.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Maccabees 14:27 August–September, 140 BCE

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