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55 Ptolemy the king replied,

Happy was the day on which you returned to the land of your ancestors and took your seat on the throne of their kingdom. 56 Now I will do for you as you wrote, but meet me at Ptolemais so that we may see each other, and I will become your father-in-law, as you have said.

57 So Ptolemy set out from Egypt—he and his daughter Cleopatra—and came to Ptolemais in the year 162.[a]

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  1. 1 Maccabees 10:57 150 BCE

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