1 Maccabees 2:13-15

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹³ To what end then should we live any longer?

¹⁴ And Mathathias and his sons rent their garments, and they covered themselves with haircloth, and made great lamentation.

¹⁵ And they that were sent from king Antiochus came thither, to compel them that were fled into the city of Modin, to sacrifice, and to burn incense, and to depart from the law of God.