1 Maccabees 12:17
Good News Translation
We have also ordered them to go to you with our greetings and deliver this letter about the renewal of our ties of brotherhood.

New Revised Standard Version
We have commanded them to go also to you and greet you and deliver to you this letter from us concerning the renewal of our family ties.

Contemporary English Version
They also have orders to bring this letter to you with our greetings, because we want to be certain that you still consider us your relatives.

New American Bible
We have also ordered them to come to you and greet you, and to deliver to you our letter concerning the renewal of our brotherhood.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And we have commanded them to go also to you, and salute you, and to deliver you our letters, concerning the renewing of our brotherhood.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And we have commanded them to go also to you, and salute you, and to deliver you our letters, concerning the renewing of our brotherhood.

1 Maccabees 12:15
For we have had help from heaven, and we have been delivered, and our enemies are humbled.

1 Maccabees 12:16
We have chosen, therefore, Numenius the son of Antiochus, and Antipater, the son of Jason, and have sent them to the Romans, to renew with them the former amity and alliance.

1 Maccabees 12:18
And now you shall do well to give us an answer hereto.

1 Maccabees 12:19
And this is the copy of the letter which he had sent to Onias:

Context
1 Maccabees 12
16We have chosen, therefore, Numenius the son of Antiochus, and Antipater, the son of Jason, and have sent them to the Romans, to renew with them the former amity and alliance. 17And we have commanded them to go also to you, and salute you, and to deliver you our letters, concerning the renewing of our brotherhood. 18And now you shall do well to give us an answer hereto.…
Cross References
1 Maccabees 12:15
For we have had help from heaven, and we have been delivered, and our enemies are humbled.

1 Maccabees 12:16
We have chosen, therefore, Numenius the son of Antiochus, and Antipater, the son of Jason, and have sent them to the Romans, to renew with them the former amity and alliance.

1 Maccabees 12:18
And now you shall do well to give us an answer hereto.

1 Maccabees 12:19
And this is the copy of the letter which he had sent to Onias:



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1 Maccabees 12:16
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