1 Maccabees 1:59-61

New Catholic Bible

⁵⁹ On the twenty-fifth day of each month they offered sacrifice on the altar erected on top of the altar of holocausts. ⁶⁰ In accordance with the royal decree, any women who had their children circumcised were put to death, ⁶¹ with their infants hung from their necks; also put to death were their families and those who had circumcised them.