18 Whereas we are now about to celebrate the purification of the temple in the month Chislev, on the five and twentieth day, we deem it our duty to inform you, that you too may keep the feast of tabernacles.—Now 〈concerning〉 the fire, on the occasion of Nehemiah offering sacrifices, after he had built both the temple and the altar (, you must know that) when our fathers were to be led into the land of Persia,