1 Maccabees 1:61-64
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61 And they hanged the infants about their necks, and rifled their houses, and slew them that had circumcised them.
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62 Howbeit many in Israel were fully resolved and confirmed in themselves not to eat any unclean thing.
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63 Wherefore the rather to die, that they might not be defiled with meats, and that they might not profane the holy covenant: so then they died.
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64 And there was very great wrath upon Israel.