4 Maccabees 5:2-4
Common English Bible
2 He ordered his soldiers to bring the Hebrews forward one by one and to force them to eat pork and meat from animals sacrificed to idols. 3 If anyone refused to eat the forbidden meat, they were supposed to be tortured to death by being stretched on a wheel. 4 When they rounded up many people, the guards dragged Eleazar forward as the first from the herd to stand in front of the king. He was a man from a priestly family, a legal expert, and quite old. He was known to many in the tyrant’s court because he had been around for so long.
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