Now Simon was visiting the cities that were in the country, and taking care for the good ordering of them; at which time he came down himself to Jericho with his sons, Mattathias and Judas, in the hundred threescore and seventeenth year, in the eleventh month, called Sabat:
Simon was traveling through the towns of the region, attending to their affairs, when he came down to Jericho with his sons Mattathias and Judas, in the 177th year, in the eleventh month, called Shebat.