2 Maccabees 11:31-33

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

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.

³³ Fare ye well. In the year one hundred and forty-eight, the fifteenth day of the month of Xanthicus.