2 Maccabees 11:19-23 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

19. If you maintain your loyalty to the government, I will endeavor to further your interests in the future.

20. On the details of these matters I have authorized my representatives, as well as your envoys, to confer with you.

21. Farewell.” The one hundred and forty-eighth year, the twenty-fourth of Dioscorinthius.

22. The king’s letter read thus: “King Antiochus sends greetings to his brother Lysias.

23. Now that our father has taken his place among the gods, we wish the subjects of our kingdom to be undisturbed in conducting their own affairs.

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