1 Maccabees 13:39-41

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

³⁹ We pardon any errors and offenses committed to this day, and cancel the crown tax which you owe; and whatever other tax has been collected in Jerusalem shall be collected no longer. ⁴⁰ And if any of you are qualified to be enrolled in our bodyguard,^[a] let them be enrolled, and let there be peace between us.”

⁴¹ In the one hundred and seventieth year^[b] the yoke of the Gentiles was removed from Israel,