4 Maccabees 18:6-8

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

The Mother’s Address to Her Children

⁶ The mother of seven sons expressed also these principles to her children: ⁷ ‘I was a pure virgin and did not go outside my father’s house; but I guarded the rib from which woman was made.^{[a] 8} No seducer corrupted me on a desert plain, nor did the destroyer, the deceitful serpent, defile the purity of my virginity.