Samaritan Sacred Precinct atop Mount Gerizim

Now it happened that the Jews in Alexandria and the Samaritans who worshiped at the temple on Mount Gerizim, which was built in the days of Alexander, were in conflict. They were disputing about their…

But then the son of Onias the high priest, who bore the same name as his father, having fled to King Ptolemy—the one who was called Philometor—was residing in Alexandria, as I mentioned earlier. When…

Ptolemy was persuaded by this proposal, and granted Onias a site twenty miles from Memphis in the borough of Heliopolis. Here Onias built a fort, and then constructed his temple out of huge stones…

[ONE WHO SAYS:] IT [IS INCUMBENT] UPON ME [TO BRING] A BURNT OFFERING, MUST SACRIFICE IT IN THE TEMPLE [IN JERUSALEM]. AND IF HE SACRIFICED IT IN THE TEMPLE OF ONIAS, HE HAS NOT FULFILLED [HIS…