3 Maccabees 7:6-8

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁶ But we very severely threatened them for these acts, and in accordance with the clemency that we have towards all people we barely spared their lives. Since we have come to realize that the God of heaven surely defends the Jews, always taking their part as a father does for his children, ⁷ and since we have taken into account the friendly and firm goodwill that they had towards us and our ancestors, we justly have acquitted them of every charge of whatever kind. ⁸ We also have ordered all people to return to their own homes, with no one in any place^[a] doing them harm at all or reproaching them for the irrational things that have happened.