1 Maccabees 10:40–43

⁴⁰I also grant fifteen thousand shekels of silver yearly out of the king’s revenues from appropriate places. ⁴¹And all the additional funds that the government officials have not paid as they did in the first years,^w they shall give from now on for the service of the temple.^{x 42}Moreover, the five thousand shekels of silver that my officials^y have received every year from the income of the services of the temple, this, too, is canceled, because it belongs to the priests who minister there. ⁴³And all who take refuge at the temple in Jerusalem or in any of its precincts because they owe money to the king or are in debt, let them be released and receive back all their property in my kingdom.