1 Maccabees 8:14-16

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁴ And none of all these wore a crown, or was clothed in purple, to be magnified thereby.

¹⁵ And that they made themselves a senate house, and consulted daily three hundred and twenty men, that sat in council always for the people, that they might do the things that were right.

¹⁶ And that they committed their government to one man every year, to rule over all their country, and they all obey one, and there is no envy, nor jealousy amongst them.