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56 And now I will do for you as you wrote, but meet me at Ptolemais, so that we may see one another, and I will become your father-in-law, as you have said.”

57 So Ptolemy set out from Egypt, he and his daughter Cleopatra, and came to Ptolemais in the one hundred sixty-second year.[a] 58 King Alexander met him, and Ptolemy[b] gave him his daughter Cleopatra in marriage, and celebrated her wedding at Ptolemais with great pomp, as kings do.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Maccabees 10:57 150 b.c.
  2. 1 Maccabees 10:58 Gk he

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