9. And now, celebrate the days of shelters in the month of Kislev.
10. In the one hundred and eighty-eighth year, from the people who are at Jerusalem and in Judea, and from the Senate and Judas: to Aristobulus, the magistrate of king Ptolemy, who is of the ancestry of anointed priests, and to those Jews who are in Egypt: greetings and good health.
11. Having been freed by God from great peril, we give thanks to him greatly, in as much as we have been struggling against so great a king.