Good News Translation
to increase the height of the walls of Jerusalem, and to build a high wall to separate the fort from the city. This would isolate the fort, making it impossible for the enemy to buy or sell anything.

New Revised Standard Version
to build the walls of Jerusalem still higher, and to erect a high barrier between the citadel and the city to separate it from the city, in order to isolate it so that its garrison could neither buy nor sell.

Contemporary English Version
and to make Jerusalem's walls even higher. They also agreed to construct a strong, high wall between the enemy fortress and the rest of the city, in order to separate the fortress from the city and to keep enemy soldiers from going in and out for supplies.

New American Bible
for making the walls of Jerusalem still higher, and for erecting a high barrier between the citadel and the city, to separate it from the city and isolate it, so that its garrison could neither buy nor sell.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And to build up walls in Jerusalem, and raise a mount between the castle and the city, to separate it from the city, that so it might have no communication, and that they might neither buy nor sell.

And to build up walls in Jerusalem, and raise a mount between the castle and the city, to separate it from the city, that so it might have no communication, and that they might neither buy nor sell.

1 Maccabees 12:34
(For he heard that they designed to deliver the hold to them that took part with Demetrius) and he put a garrison there to keep it.

1 Maccabees 12:35
And Jonathan came back, and called together the ancients of the people; and he took a resolution with them to build fortresses in Judea,

1 Maccabees 12:37
And they came together to build up the city: for the wall that was upon the brook, towards the east, was broken down, and he repaired that which is called Caphetetha:

1 Maccabees 12:38
And Simon built Adiada in Sephela, and fortified it, and set up gates and bars.