1 Maccabees 1:46-48

Good News Translation

⁴⁶ They were even ordered to defile the Temple and the holy things in it.^{[a] 47} They were commanded to build pagan altars, temples, and shrines, and to sacrifice pigs and other unclean animals there. ⁴⁸ They were forbidden to circumcise their sons and were required to make themselves ritually unclean in every way they could,