2 Maccabees 12:42-44

Wycliffe Bible

⁴² And so they converted (or turned) to prayers, and prayed, that that trespass that was done, were (or was) betaken to forgetting. And soothly the strongest Judas admonished the people, for to keep them(selves) without sin, seeing under (or right before) (their) eyes, what things were done for (the) sins of them that were cast down.

⁴³ And when (a) collection was made, he sent twelve thousand drachmas of silver to Jerusalem, to be offered (as) a sacrifice for (the) sins of (the) dead men, and bethought well and religiously of (the) again-rising (or of the resurrection), [or well and religiously bethinking of (the) again-rising];

⁴⁴ for if he hoped not, that they that fell should rise again, it was seen (as) superfluous and vain for to pray for (the) dead men;