24. I also will write to them words of encouragement and of honor and of gifts, that they may be with me to aid me.
25. And he sent to them according to these words: King Demetrius to the nation of the Jews, greeting:
26. Forasmuch as you⌃ have kept your covenants with us, and continued in our friendship, and have not joined yourselves to our enemies, we have heard hereof, and are glad.
27. And now continue you⌃ still to keep faith with us, and we will recompense to you good things in return for your dealings with us,
28. and will grant you many immunities, and give you gifts.
29. And now do I free you, and release all the Jews, from the tributes, and from the customs of salt, and from the crowns.
30. And instead of the third part of the seed, and instead of the half of the fruit of the trees, which falls to me to receive, I release it from this day and henceforth, so that I will not take it from the land of Judah, and from the three governments which are added thereto from the country of Samaria and Galilee, from this day forth and for all time.
31. And let Jerusalem be holy and free, and her borders; the tenths and the tolls also.
32. I yield up also my authority over the citadel which is at Jerusalem, and give it to the high priest, that he may appoint in it such men as he shall choose to keep it.
33. And every soul of the Jews, that has been carried captive from the land of Judah into any part of my kingdom, I set at liberty without price; and let all remit the tributes of their cattle also.
34. And all the feasts, and the Sabbaths, and new moons, and appointed days, and three days before a feast, and three days after a feast, let them all be days of immunity and release for all the Jews that are in my kingdom.