1 Maccabees 1:48-50

New Catholic Bible

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. ⁵⁰ Anyone who refused to obey the command of the king was to be put to death.