1 Maccabees 2:46-48

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁴⁶ And they circumcised all the children whom they found in the confines of Israel that were uncircumcised: and they did valiantly.

⁴⁷ And they pursued after the children of pride, and the work prospered in their hands:

⁴⁸ And they recovered the law out of the hands of the nations, and out of the hands of the kings: and they yielded not the horn to the sinner.