1 Maccabees 10:54
Good News Translation
Now I am ready to make an alliance. Give me your daughter in marriage, and I will give both of you such gifts as you deserve."

New Revised Standard Version
now therefore let us establish friendship with one another; give me now your daughter as my wife, and I will become your son-in-law, and will make gifts to you and to her in keeping with your position.”

Contemporary English Version
Ptolemy, I would like for us to become allies. Let me marry your daughter and be your son-in-law. Then I will give each of you gifts that are worthy of a king and his daughter.

New American Bible
let us now establish friendship with each other. Give me now your daughter for my wife; and as your son-in-law, I will give to you and to her gifts worthy of you.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now, therefore, let us make friendship one with another: and give me now thy daughter to wife, and I will be thy son in law, and I will give both thee and her gifts worthy of thee.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Now, therefore, let us make friendship one with another: and give me now thy daughter to wife, and I will be thy son in law, and I will give both thee and her gifts worthy of thee.

1 Maccabees 10:52
Forasmuch as I am returned into my kingdom and am set in the throne of my ancestors, and have gotten the dominion, and have overthrown Demetrius and possessed our country,

1 Maccabees 10:53
And have joined battle with him, and both he and his army have been destroyed by us, and we are placed in the throne of his kingdom:

1 Maccabees 10:55
And king Ptolomee answered, saying: Happy is the day wherein thou didst return to the land of thy fathers, and sattest in the throne of their kingdom.

1 Maccabees 10:56
And now I will do to thee as thou hast written but meet me at Ptolemais, that we may see one another, and I may give her to thee as thou hast said.

Context
1 Maccabees 10
53And have joined battle with him, and both he and his army have been destroyed by us, and we are placed in the throne of his kingdom: 54Now, therefore, let us make friendship one with another: and give me now thy daughter to wife, and I will be thy son in law, and I will give both thee and her gifts worthy of thee. 55And king Ptolomee answered, saying: Happy is the day wherein thou didst return to the land of thy fathers, and sattest in the throne of their kingdom.…
Cross References
1 Maccabees 10:52
Forasmuch as I am returned into my kingdom and am set in the throne of my ancestors, and have gotten the dominion, and have overthrown Demetrius and possessed our country,

1 Maccabees 10:53
And have joined battle with him, and both he and his army have been destroyed by us, and we are placed in the throne of his kingdom:

1 Maccabees 10:55
And king Ptolomee answered, saying: Happy is the day wherein thou didst return to the land of thy fathers, and sattest in the throne of their kingdom.

1 Maccabees 10:56
And now I will do to thee as thou hast written but meet me at Ptolemais, that we may see one another, and I may give her to thee as thou hast said.



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1 Maccabees 10:53
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