Good News Translation
Each year they entrusted to one man the responsibility of governing them and controlling their whole territory. Everyone obeyed this one man, and there was no envy or jealousy among them.

New Revised Standard Version
They trust one man each year to rule over them and to control all their land; they all heed the one man, and there is no envy or jealousy among them.

Contemporary English Version
Every year, the Romans elect one man to govern them and the countries under their control. Everyone obeys this ruler, and no one is ever jealous of him.

New American Bible
They entrust their government to one man every year, to rule over their entire land, and they all obey that one, and there is no envy or jealousy among them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And that they committed their government to one man every year, to rule over all their country, and they all obey one, and there is no envy nor jealousy amongst them.

And that they committed their government to one man every year, to rule over all their country, and they all obey one, and there is no envy nor jealousy amongst them.

1 Maccabees 8:14
And none of all these wore a crown, or was clothed in purple, to be magnified thereby.

1 Maccabees 8:15
And that they had made themselves a senate house, and consulted daily three hundred and twenty men, that sat in counsel always for the people, that they might do the things that were right:

1 Maccabees 8:17
So Judas chose Eupolemus, the son of John, the son of Jacob, and Jason, the son of Eleazar, and he sent them to Rome to make a league of amity and confederacy with them:

1 Maccabees 8:18
And that they might take off from them the yoke of the Grecians, for they saw that they oppressed the kingdom of Israel with servitude.