4 Maccabees 4:23-25

Revised Standard Version

²³ and after he had plundered them he issued a decree that if any of them should be found observing the ancestral law they should die. ²⁴ When, by means of his decrees, he had not been able in any way to put an end to the people’s observance of the law, but saw that all his threats and punishments were being disregarded, ²⁵ even to the point that women, because they had circumcised their sons, were thrown headlong from heights along with their infants, though they had known beforehand that they would suffer this—