4 Maccabees 18:9-11

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁹ In the time of my maturity I remained with my husband, and when these sons had grown up their father died. A happy man was he, who lived out his life with good children, and did not have the grief of bereavement. ¹⁰ While he was still with you, he taught you the law and the prophets. ¹¹ He read to you about Abel slain by Cain, and Isaac who was offered as a burnt-offering, and about Joseph in prison.