2 Maccabees 1:9-11

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁹ And now see that you keep the festival of booths in the month of Chislev, in the one hundred eighty-eighth year.^[a]

A Letter to Aristobulus

¹⁰ The people of Jerusalem and of Judea and the senate and Judas,

To Aristobulus, who is of the family of the anointed priests, teacher of King Ptolemy, and to the Jews in Egypt,

Greetings and good health.

¹¹ Having been saved by God out of grave dangers we thank him greatly for taking our side against the king,^[b]