2 Maccabees 11:30-32

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³⁰ We grant therefore a safe conduct to all that come and go, until the thirtieth day of the month of Xanthicus,

³¹ That the Jews may use their own kind of meats, and their own laws as before, and that none of them any manner of ways be molested for things which have been done by ignorance.

³² And we have sent also Menelaus to speak to you.