1. And it came to pass that seven brethren also with their mother were at the king’s command taken and shamefully handled with scourges and cords, to compel them to taste of the abominable swine’s flesh.
2. But one of them made himself the spokesman and said, What would you ask and learn of us? for we are ready to die rather than transgress the laws of our fathers.
3. And the king fell into a rage, and commanded to heat pans and caldrons:
4. and when these forthwith were heated, he commanded to cut out the tongue of him that had been their spokesman, and to scalp him, and to cut off his extremities, the rest of his brethren and his mother looking on.
5. And when he was utterly maimed, the king commanded to bring him to the fire, being yet alive, and to fry him in the pan. And as the vapor of the pan spread far, they and their mother also exhorted one another to die nobly, saying thus:
6. The Lord God sees, and in truth is entreated for us, as Moses declared in his song, which witnesseth against the people to their faces, saying, And he shall be entreated for his servants.
7. And when the first had died after this manner, they brought the second to the mocking; and they pulled off the skin of his head with the hair and asked him, Wilt you eat, before your body be punished in every limb?
8. But he answered in the language of his fathers and said to them, No. Wherefore he also underwent the next torture in succession, as the first had done.