2 Maccabees 1:9-11

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁹ And now celebrate ye the days of Scenopegia in the month of Casleu.

¹⁰ In the year one hundred and eighty-eight, the people that is at Jerusalem, and in Judea, and the senate, and Judas, to Aristobolus, the preceptor of king Ptolemee, who is of the stock of the anointed priests, and to the Jews that are in Egypt, health and welfare.

¹¹ Having been delivered by God out of great dangers, we give him great thanks, forasmuch as we have been in war with such a king.