1 Maccabees 1:15-17

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁵ And they built a place of exercise in Jerusalem, according to the laws of the nations:

¹⁶ And they made themselves prepuces, and departed from the holy covenant, and joined themselves to the heathens, and were sold to do evil.

¹⁷ And the kingdom was established before Antiochus, and he had a mind to reign over the land of Egypt, that he might reign over two kingdoms.