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 which the government officials have not paid as they did in the first years,^y they shall give from now on for the service of the temple.^{z 42}Moreover, the five thousand shekels of silver which my officials^a 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 whoever takes refuge at the temple in Jerusalem, or in any of its precincts, because he owes money to the king or has any debt, let him be released and receive back all his property in my kingdom.