11. In those days there appeared in Israel transgressors of the law who seduced many, saying: “Let us go and make a covenant with the Gentiles all around us; since we separated from them, many evils have come upon us.”
12. The proposal was agreeable;
13. some from among the people promptly went to the king, and he authorized them to introduce the ordinances of the Gentiles.
14. Thereupon they built a gymnasium in Jerusalem according to the Gentile custom.