27 So they made a record on bronze tablets and put it on pillars on Mount Zion.

This is a copy of what they wrote: “On the eighteenth day of Elul, in the one hundred seventy-second year,e which is the third year of the great high priest Simon, 28 in Asaramel,f in the great assembly of the priests and the people and the rulers of the nation and the elders of the country, the following was proclaimed to us: