4 Maccabees 6:14-16

Common English Bible

¹⁴ “Eleazar, why are you throwing your life away so thoughtlessly in the midst of these torments? ¹⁵ We will set some cooked meat in front of you. Save yourself by pretending that it is pork and eat it.”

¹⁶ Eleazar screamed out as if this advice were even more painful than the whips: