1 Maccabees 14:26-28

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

²⁶ For he and his brothers and the house of his father have stood firm; they have fought and repulsed Israel’s enemies and established its freedom.” ²⁷ So they made a record on bronze tablets and put it on pillars on Mount Zion.

This is a copy of what they wrote: “On the eighteenth day of Elul, in the one hundred seventy-second year,^[a] which is the third year of the great high priest Simon, ²⁸ in Asaramel,^[b] in the great assembly of the priests and the people and the rulers of the nation and the elders of the country, the following was proclaimed to us: