1 Maccabees 2:32-34

Revised Standard Version

³² Many pursued them, and overtook them; they encamped opposite them and prepared for battle against them on the sabbath day. ³³ And they said to them, “Enough of this! Come out and do what the king commands, and you will live.” ³⁴ But they said, “We will not come out, nor will we do what the king commands and so profane the sabbath day.”