1 Maccabees 8:19–22

¹⁹And they went to Rome, a very long journey, and they entered into the senate house, and said:

²⁰Judas Machabeus, and his brethren, and the people of the Jews, have sent us to you to make alliance and peace with you, and that we may be registered your confederates and friends.

²¹And the proposal was pleasing in their sight.

²²And this is the copy of the writing that they wrote back again, graven in tables of brass, and sent to Jerusalem, that it might be with them there for a memorial of the peace, and alliance.