1 Maccabees 1:58-60

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁵⁸ They kept using violence against Israel, against those who were found month after month in the towns. ⁵⁹ On the twenty-fifth day of the month they offered sacrifice on the altar that was on top of the altar of burnt-offering. ⁶⁰ In accordance with the decree, they put to death the women who had their children circumcised,