4 Maccabees 17:8-10

Revised Standard Version

⁸ Indeed it would be proper to inscribe upon their tomb these words as a reminder to the people of our nation:^[a]

⁹ “Here lie buried an aged priest and an aged woman and seven sons, because of the violence of the tyrant who wished to destroy the way of life of the Hebrews. ¹⁰ They vindicated their nation, looking to God and enduring torture even to death.”