4 Maccabees 18:6-8

Revised Standard Version

The Mother’s Address to Her Children

⁶ The mother of the 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.