1 Maccabees 1:47-49

New Catholic Bible

⁴⁷ to sacrifice swine^[a] and other unclean beasts, ⁴⁸ to leave their sons uncircumcised, and to allow themselves to be defiled with every kind of impurity and abomination, ⁴⁹ so that they would forget the law and change all their observances.