3 Maccabees 7:6-8

Revised Standard Version

⁶ But we very severely threatened them for these acts, and in accordance with the clemency which we have toward all men 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 which they had toward us and our ancestors, we justly have acquitted them of every charge of whatever kind. ⁸ We also have ordered each and every one to return to his own home, with no one in any place^[a] doing them harm at all or reproaching them for the irrational things that have happened.