And they said to them: Do you still resist? come forth, and do according to the edict of king Antiochus, and you shall live.
[34] And they said: We will not come forth, neither will we obey the king's edict, to profane the sabbath day.
[35] And they made haste to give them battle.
[36] But they answered them not, neither did they cast a stone at them, nor stopped up the secret places,
[37] Saying: Let us all die in our innocency: and heaven and earth shall be witnesses for us, that you put us to death wrongfully.
[38] So they gave them battle on the sabbath: and they were slain with their wives, and their children, and their cattle, to the number of a thousand persons.
[39] And Mathathias and his friends heard of it, and they mourned for them exceedingly.
[40] And every man said to his neighbour: If we shall all do as our brethren have done, and not fight against the heathens for our lives, and our justifications: they will now quickly root us out of the earth.
[41] And they determined in that day, saying: Whosoever shall come up against us to fight on the sabbath day, we will fight against him: and we will not all die, as our brethren that were slain in the secret places.
[42] Then was assembled to them the congregation of
the Assideans, the stoutest of Israel, every one that had a good will for the law.
[43] And all they that fled from the evils, joined themselves to them, and were a support to them.
[44] And they gathered an army, and slew the sinners in their wrath, and the wicked men in their indignation: and the rest fled to the nations for safety.
[45] And Mathathias and his friends went round about, and they threw down the altars: