1 Maccabees 14:25-27

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²⁵ These words, they said: What thanks shall we give to Simon, and his sons?

²⁶ For he hath restored his brethren, and hath driven away in fight the enemies of Israel from them: and they decreed him liberty, and registered it in tables of brass, and set it upon pillars in mount Sion.

²⁷ And this is a copy of the writing: The eighteenth day of the month Elul, in the year one hundred and seventy-two, being the third year under Simon the high priest at Asaramel,