1 Maccabees 1:57-59

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁵⁷ On the fifteenth day of the month Casleu, in the hundred and forty-fifth year, king Antiochus set up the abominable idol of desolation upon the altar of God, and they built altars throughout all the cities of Juda round about:

⁵⁸ And they burnt incense, and sacrificed at the doors of the houses, and in the streets.

⁵⁹ And they cut in pieces, and burnt with fire the books of the law of God: