2 Maccabees 6:6-8

Wycliffe Bible

⁶ Soothly neither sabbaths were kept, neither solemn days of (the) fathers were kept, neither simply, neither openly, [or plainly], any man acknowledged him(self) (to be) a Jew.

⁷ Forsooth they were led with bitter need in the day of the king’s birth to sacrifices. And when (the) holy things of Liber, that is Bacchus, either a false god, which the heathen men called (the) god of wine, were made solemnly, [or were hallowed], they were crowned with ivy, and were constrained for to go about with Liber (or unto Bacchus).

⁸ Soothly the doom went out into the next cities of (the) heathen men, by Ptolemy procuring, that in like manner also they should do against (the) Jews, that they should do sacrifice;