4 Maccabees 10:7-9

Revised Standard Version

⁷ Since they were not able in any way to break his spirit,^[a] they abandoned the instruments^[b] and scalped him with their fingernails in Scyth′ian fashion. ⁸ They immediately brought him to the wheel, and while his vertebrae were being dislocated upon it he saw his own flesh torn all around and drops of blood flowing from his entrails. ⁹ When he was about to die, he said,