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23 It has pleased our people to receive these men with honour and to put a copy of their words in the public archives, so that the people of the Spartans may have a record of them. And they have sent a copy of this to the high priest Simon.”’

24 After this Simon sent Numenius to Rome with a large gold shield weighing one thousand minas, to confirm the alliance with the Romans.[a]

Official Honours for Simon

25 When the people heard these things they said, ‘How shall we thank Simon and his sons?

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Maccabees 14:24 Gk them

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