1 Maccabees 2:13-15

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

¹³ Why should we live any longer?’

¹⁴Then Mattathias and his sons tore their clothes, put on sackcloth, and mourned greatly.

Pagan Worship Refused

¹⁵The king’s officers who were enforcing the apostasy came to the town of Modein to make them offer sacrifice.

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