1 Maccabees 3:48-50

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁴⁸ And they opened the book of the law to inquire into those matters about which the Gentiles consulted the images of their gods. ⁴⁹ They also brought the vestments of the priesthood and the first fruits and the tithes, and they stirred up the nazirites^[a] who had completed their days; ⁵⁰ and they cried aloud to Heaven, saying,