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.
52 Many of the people obeyed the king and gave up God's Law. They did evil things everywhere
53 and forced the faithful Jews to go into hiding.