45 Don't offer sacrifices in the temple or celebrate the Sabbath and your other festivals.
46 Make the temple and everything in it unfit for the worship of your God.
47 Build altars and other special places for worshiping our gods and for sacrificing pigs and other animals that your laws forbid.
48 Don't circumcise your sons. Forget about what your religion teaches is right or wrong.
49 Change your laws and forget about those teachings.
50 Anyone who doesn't obey the king will be put to death.
51 After Antiochus had sent this law to everyone in his kingdom, his officials went to every town of Judea and tried to make sure the Jews offered sacrifices to foreign gods.