1 Maccabees 1:12-14

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹² In those days there went out of Israel wicked men, and they persuaded many, saying: Let us go, and make a covenant with the heathens that are round about us: for since we departed from them, many evils have befallen us.

¹³ And the word seemed good in their eyes.

¹⁴ And some of the people determined to do this, and went to the king: and he gave them license to do after the ordinances of the heathens.