Good News Translation
We are now only making use of this opportunity to recover our ancestral heritage.

New Revised Standard Version
Now that we have the opportunity, we are firmly holding the inheritance of our ancestors.

Contemporary English Version
We intend to keep our land and property now that we have them back once again.

New American Bible
Now that we have the opportunity, we are holding on to the heritage of our ancestors.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But we having opportunity, claim the inheritance of our fathers.

But we having opportunity, claim the inheritance of our fathers.

1 Maccabees 15:32
So Athenobius, the king's friend came to Jerusalem, and saw the glory of Simon and his magnificence in gold, and silver, and his great equipage, and he was astonished, and told him the king's words.

1 Maccabees 15:33
And Simon answered him, and said to him: We have neither taken other men's land, neither do we hold that which is other men's, but the inheritance of our fathers, which was for some time unjustly possessed by our enemies.

1 Maccabees 15:35
And as to thy complaints concerning Joppe and Gazara, they did great harm to the people, and to our country: yet for these we will give a hundred talents. And Athenobius answered him not a word.

1 Maccabees 15:36
But returning in a rage to the king, made report to him of these words, and of the glory of Simon, and of all that he had seen, and the king was exceeding angry.