Catholic Public Domain Version

2 Maccabees 5:12-15 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

12. Moreover, he ordered the military to execute, and not to spare, anyone they met, and to ascend through the houses to slay.

13. Therefore, a massacre occurred of youths and elders, an extermination of women and children, a killing of virgins and little ones.

14. And so, over three whole days, eighty thousand were executed, forty thousand were imprisoned, and no small number were sold.

15. But, as if this were not enough, he even presumed to enter into the most holy temple in the entire world, with Menelaus, that traitor to the law and to his own nation, as his guide.