# 1 Maccabees 12:7

**Apocrypha.** Not part of the 66-book Protestant canon. Catholic and Orthodox churches accept these books as deuterocanonical.

> The King James Version (1769), including the Apocrypha, is in the public domain in the United States. Letters patent restrict printing this translation in the United Kingdom.

- Edition: kjv-apocrypha
- Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/1-maccabees/12/7
- Book: [1 Maccabees](https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/1-maccabees)
- Chapter: [1 Maccabees 12](https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/1-maccabees/12)
- Background: https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/1-maccabees#background-and-history
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There were letters sent in times past unto Onias the high priest from Darius, who reigned then among you, to signify that ye are our brethren, as the copy here underwritten doth specify.