1 Now Antioḵos son of Dĕmĕtrios the sovereign sent letters from the islands of the sea to Shim’on the kohĕn and prince of the Yahuḏim, and to all the people; 2 the contents of which were these: “Sovereign Antioḵos to Shim’on the kohĕn ha’gadol and leader of his nation, and Read more
1 Then Yoḥanan came up from Gezer, and told Shim’on his father what Kendĕbeus had done. 2 Therefore Shim’on called his two eldest sons Yahuḏah and Yoḥanan and said to them, “My brothers and I and my father’s house have from my youth to this day always fought against the Read more
1 The brothers, the Yahuḏim that are at Yerushalayim and in the land of Yahuḏah desire health and peace to the brothers, the Yahuḏim that are throughout Mitsrayim. 2 Elohim show favor to you, and remember His Covenant that He made with Aḇraham, Yitsḥaq, and Ya’aqoḇ His trustworthy servants; 3 Read more
1 It is also found in the records that Yirmeyahu the naḇi commanded those that were carried away to take from the fire, as it has been declared, 2 and how the naḇi, having given them the Law, charged them not to forget the Commands of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, and that they Read more
1 Now when the qodesh city was inhabited with all peace and the Laws were guarded very well, because of the righteousness of Onyah the kohĕn ha’gadol and his hatred of wickedness, 2 it came to be that even the sovereigns themselves honored the place and extolled the Hĕyḵal with Read more
1 This Shim’on now, of whom we spoke before, having been a betrayer of the silver and of his country, slandered Onyah as if he had terrified Heliodorus and been the worker of these evils. 2 Thus he was bold to call him a traitor, that had deserved good from Read more
1 About the same time Antioḵos prepared his second voyage to Mitsrayim. 2 And then it came to be, that through all the city for almost forty days, there was seen horsemen running in the air in golden garments, and armed with lances like a band of soldiers, 3 and Read more
1 Not long after this, the sovereign sent an old man of Athĕnai to compel the Yahuḏim to depart from the Laws of their fathers and not to live after the Laws of Elohim, 2 and to also pollute the Hĕyḵal in Yerushalayim, and to call it the temple of Read more
1 It also came to be, that seven brothers with their mother were taken, and compelled by the sovereign – against the Law – to eat pig’s flesh, and were tortured with scourges and whips. 2 But one of them that spoke first said, “What would you ask or learn Read more
1 Then Yahuḏah Maqqaḇah, and those that were with him, went secretly into the towns and called their clans together, and took to them all who continued in the belief of the Yahuḏim and assembled about six thousand men. 2 And they called upon 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, that He would look upon Read more