4 Maccabees 5:26-28

Revised Standard Version

²⁶ He has permitted us to eat what will be most suitable for our lives,^[a] but he has forbidden us to eat meats that would be contrary to this. ²⁷ It would be tyrannical for you to compel us not only to transgress the law, but also to eat in such a way that you may deride us for eating defiling foods, which are most hateful to us. ²⁸ But you shall have no such occasion to laugh at me,