1 Maccabees 12:23
“We doe write backe againe to you, that your cattell and goods are ours, and ours are yours. We doe command therefore our Embassadours to make report vnto you on this wise.”
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1 Maccabees 12:23 Context
21It is found in writing, that the Lacedemonians and Iewes are brethren, and that they are of the stocke of Abraham: 22Now therefore, since this is come to our knowledge, you shall doe well to write vnto vs of your prosperitie. 23We doe write backe againe to you, that your cattell and goods are ours, and ours are yours. We doe command therefore [our Embassadours] to make report vnto you on this wise. 24Now when Ionathan heard that Demetrius princes were come to fight against him with a greater hoste then afore, 25Hee remooued from Ierusalem, and met them in the land of Amathis: for he gaue them no respite to enter his countrey.
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We do write back again to you, that your cattle and goods are our's, and our's are your's We do command therefore our ambassadors to make report unto you on this wise.
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