2 Maccabees 7:2-4

New Catholic Bible

² One of the brothers, acting as a spokesman for the others, said, “What do you expect to achieve by questioning us? We are prepared to die rather than transgress the laws of our ancestors.”

³ The king became enraged and issued orders to have pans and caldrons heated. ⁴ After this was done without delay, he commanded that the tongue of their spokesman be cut out and that he be scalped and his hands and feet cut off while the rest of his brothers and his mother looked on.