3 Maccabees 3:25-27

Revised Standard Version

²⁵ Therefore we have given orders that, as soon as this letter shall arrive, you are to send to us those who live among you, together with their wives and children, with insulting and harsh treatment, and bound securely with iron fetters, to suffer the sure and shameful death that befits enemies. ²⁶ For when these all have been punished, we are sure that for the remaining time the government will be established for ourselves in good order and in the best state. ²⁷ But whoever shelters any of the Jews, old people or children or even infants, will be tortured to death with the most hateful torments, together with his family.