2 Maccabees 13:5-7

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⁵ For there is a tower there, fifty cubits high, full of ashes, and it has a rim running around it that on all sides inclines precipitously into the ashes. ⁶ There they all push to destruction anyone guilty of sacrilege or notorious for other crimes.^{(A) 7} By such a fate it came about that Menelaus the lawbreaker died, without even burial in the earth.^(B)