2 Maccabees 6:9-11

Common English Bible

⁹ and that those who refused to change to Greek practices should be slaughtered. At that point it was easy to see the miserable state that had arrived. ¹⁰ For instance, they brought forward two women who had circumcised their sons, with their infants hanging from their breasts. They dragged them around the city publicly, then hurled them down from the city wall. ¹¹ Others gathered secretly into caverns nearby to keep the seventh day, but they were betrayed to Philip. They were all burned together because they were reluctant to defend themselves, out of respect for the most sacred day.