49. And he ordered the holy places to be defiled, along with the holy people of Israel.
50. And he ordered altars to be built, and temples, and idols, and he ordered the immolation of the flesh of swine and of unclean cattle,
51. and that they should leave their sons uncircumcised, and defile their souls with all that is unclean, and with abominations, so that they would forget the law and would alter all the justifications of God,
52. and that whoever would not act according to the word of king Antiochus should be put to death.
53. According to all these words, he wrote to all his kingdom. And he appointed leaders over the people, who would compel them to do these things.
54. And these ordered the cities of Judah to sacrifice.
55. And many from the people, who had abandoned the law of the Lord, were gathered together by them. And they committed evils upon the land.
56. And they drove the people of Israel into hiding and into the secret places of fugitives.
57. On the fifteenth day of the month of Kislev, in the one hundred and forty-fifth year, king Antiochus set up the abominable idol of desolation on the altar of God, and they built altars throughout all the surrounding cities of Judah.
58. And they burned frankincense, and they sacrificed before the doors of houses and in the streets.
59. And they cut up the books of the law of God and destroyed them with fire.
60. And all those who were found with the books of the testament of the Lord, and whoever observed the law of the Lord, they butchered, according to the edict of the king.