1 Maccabees 1:61-63

Wycliffe Bible

⁶¹ and they hanged (the) children by the necks, by all (the) houses of them, and strangled them that (had) circumcised them.

⁶² And many of the people of Israel determined, either fully deemed, with(in) them(selves), that they should not eat unclean things,

⁶³ and choosed more for to die, than for to be defouled with unclean meats. And they would not break the holy law of God, and they were slain;