Good News Translation
Finally they appealed to Simon for a truce. He agreed, removed them from the fort, and purified it.

New Revised Standard Version
Then they cried to Simon to make peace with them, and he did so. But he expelled them from there and cleansed the citadel from its pollutions.

Contemporary English Version
Finally, the survivors begged Simon for peace. He agreed, then ordered them to leave the fortress, so he could remove everything that made it unclean according to their religion.

New American Bible
They finally cried out to Simon, and he gave them terms of peace. He expelled them from the citadel and cleansed it of impurities.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they cried to Simon for peace, and he granted it to them: and he cast them out from thence and cleansed the castle from uncleannesses.

And they cried to Simon for peace, and he granted it to them: and he cast them out from thence and cleansed the castle from uncleannesses.

1 Maccabees 13:48
And having cast out of it all uncleanness, he placed in it men that should observe the law: and he fortified it, and made it his habitation.

1 Maccabees 13:49
But they that were in the castle of Jerusalem were hindered from going out and coming into the country, and from buying and selling: and they were straitened with hunger, and many of them perished through famine.

1 Maccabees 13:51
And they entered into it the three and twentieth day of the second month, in the year one hundred and seventy-one, with thanksgiving, and branches of palm trees, and harps, and cymbals, and psalteries, and hymns, and canticles, because the great enemy was destroyed out of Israel.

1 Maccabees 13:52
And he ordained that these days should be kept every year with gladness.