10 The people of Yerushalem (Jerusalem) and those who are in Yehudah (Judea), with the senate and Yehudah, to Aristobulos, King Ptolemaios’s (Ptolemy’s) teacher, who’s also of the stock of the anointed priests, and to the Yehudim who are in Mitsrayim (Egypt), we send greetings and health.

11 Having been saved by God out of great perils, as men arrayed against a king, we thank him greatly. 12 Because he threw out into Paras (Persia) those who fought against us in the holy city. 13 Because when the prince had come there, with an army that seemed irresistible, they were cut to pieces in Nanaia’s temple by the treachery of Nanaia’s priests. 14 Because Antiokos (Antiochus), on the pretence that he’d marry her, came into the place, he and his friends who were with him, that they might take a large part of the treasures as a dowry. 15 And when the priests of Nanaia’s temple had set the treasures out, and he’d come there with a small company within the wall of the sacred precinct, they locked the temple when Antiokos had come in. 16 Opening the secret door of the panelled ceiling, they threw stones and struck down the prince. They cut him and his company in pieces, and cut off their heads, and threw them to the people who were outside. 17 Blessed be our god in all things, who handed over those who’d committed impiety.