2 Maccabees 11:31-33

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

³¹ for the Jews to enjoy their own food and laws, just as formerly, and none of them shall be molested in any way for what may have been done in ignorance. ³² And I have also sent Menelaus to encourage you. ³³ Farewell. The one hundred and forty-eighth year,^[a] the fifteenth of Xanthicus.’