17. It is a serious thing to disregard God's law, as you will see from the following events.
18. Once when the king was present for the athletic games that were held every five years in the city of Tyre,
19. that worthless Jason sent some men there from Jerusalem, who were also enrolled as citizens of Antioch, to take ten tonnes of silver to pay for a sacrifice to the god Hercules. But even these men did not think it was fitting to use such a large sum of money for a sacrifice, and