Good News Translation
The Romans provided them with letters to the authorities in each country through which they would pass, guaranteeing them safe conduct in their return to the land of Judea.

New Revised Standard Version
And the Romans gave them letters to the people in every place, asking them to provide for the envoys safe conduct to the land of Judah.

Contemporary English Version
After the meeting, the Romans wrote letters to the other nations where the messengers were going. In these letters they said, "Help these men return safely to Judea."

New American Bible
The Romans gave them letters addressed to authorities in various places, with the request to provide them with safe conduct to the land of Judah.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they gave them letters to their governors in every place, to conduct them into the land of Juda with peace.

And they gave them letters to their governors in every place, to conduct them into the land of Juda with peace.

1 Maccabees 12:2
And he sent letters to the Spartans, and to other places, according to the same form.

1 Maccabees 12:3
And they went to Rome, and entered into the senate house, and said: Jonathan, the high priest, and the nation of the Jews, have sent us to renew the amity, and alliance, as it was before.

1 Maccabees 12:5
And this is a copy of the letters which Jonathan wrote to the Spartans:

1 Maccabees 12:6
Jonathan, the high priest, and the ancients of the nation, and the priests, and the rest of the people of the Jews, to the Spartans, their brethren, greeting.