1 Maccabees 1:46-53
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46 And pollute the sanctuary and holy people:
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47 Set up altars, and groves, and chapels of idols, and sacrifice swine's flesh, and unclean beasts:
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48 That they should also leave their children uncircumcised, and make their souls abominable with all manner of uncleanness and profanation:
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49 To the end they might forget the law, and change all the ordinances.
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50 And whosoever would not do according to the commandment of the king, he said, he should die.
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51 In the selfsame manner wrote he to his whole kingdom, and appointed overseers over all the people, commanding the cities of Juda to sacrifice, city by city.
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52 Then many of the people were gathered unto them, to wit every one that forsook the law; and so they committed evils in the land;
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53 And drove the Israelites into secret places, even wheresoever they could flee for succour.