2 Maccabees 11:31-33

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

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 he may have done in ignorance. ³² And I have also sent Menela′us to encourage you. ³³ Farewell. The one hundred and forty-eighth year,^[a] Xan′thicus fifteenth.”