1 Maccabees 13:39-41

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³⁹ And as for any oversight or fault committed unto this day, we forgive it, and the crown which you owed: and if any other thing were taxed in Jerusalem, now let it not be taxed.

⁴⁰ And if any of you be fit to be enrolled among ours, let them be enrolled, and let there be peace between us.

⁴¹ In the year one hundred and seventy the yoke of the Gentiles was taken off from Israel.