27. The king’s letter to the people was as follows: “King Antiochus sends greetings to the Jewish senate and to the rest of the Jews.
28. If you are well, it is what we desire. We too are in good health.
29. Menelaus has told us of your wish to return home and attend to your own affairs.
30. Therefore, those who return by the thirtieth of Xanthicus will have our assurance of full permission
31. to observe their dietary and other laws, just as before, and none of the Jews shall be molested in any way for faults committed through ignorance.