61 Antiochus even told these troops, “Hang the baby around his mother's neck, and kill the whole family, as well as the man who circumcised the baby.”
62 Many Jews firmly made up their minds never to eat what their religion said was unclean.
63 They chose to die rather than to eat forbidden food and break the agreement God had made with them. Many of them died,
64 and the nation suffered terribly.