5. Now therefore I confirm to you all the exactions which the kings that were before me remitted to you, and whatever gifts besides they remitted to you:
6. and I give you leave to coin money for your country with your own stamp,
7. but that Jerusalem and the sanctuary should be free: and all the arms that you have prepared, and the strongholds that you have built, which you have in your possession, let them remain to you:
8. and everything owing to the king, and the things that shall be owing to the king from henceforth and for evermore, let them be remitted to you:
9. moreover, when we shall have established our kingdom, we will glorify you and your nation and the temple with great glory, so that your glory shall be made manifest in all the earth.
10. In the hundred and seventy and fourth year went Antiochus forth into the land of his fathers; and all the forces came together to him, so that there were few men with Tryphon.
11. And king Antiochus pursued him, and he came, as he fled, to Dor, which is by the sea:
12. for he knew that troubles were come upon him all at once, and that his forces had forsaken him.
13. And Antiochus encamped against Dor, and with him a hundred and twenty thousand men of war, and eight thousand horse.
14. And he compassed the city round about, and the ships joined in the attack from the sea; and he vexed the city by land and sea, and suffered no man to go out or in.
15. And Numenius and his company came from Rome, having letters to the kings and to the countries, wherein were written these things:
16. Lucius, consul of the Romans, to king Ptolemy, greeting:
17. The Jews’ ambassadors came to us as our friends and confederates, to renew the old friendship and confederacy, being sent from Simon the high priest, and from the people of the Jews:
18. moreover they brought a shield of gold of a thousand pound.
19. It pleased us therefore to write to the kings and to the countries, that they should not seek their hurt, nor fight against them, and their cities, and their country, nor be confederates with such as fight against them.