So then they wrote it in tables of brass, which they set upon pillars in mount Sion: and this is the copy of the writing; The eighteenth day of the month Elul, in the hundred threescore and twelfth year, being the third year of Simon the high priest,
So they inscribed this on bronze tablets, which they set up on pillars on Mount Zion; and this is a copy of what was written: "On the eighteenth day of the month of Elul, in the 172nd year, the third year of Simon the high priest,