Machabaeorum i
Septuaginta
Septuaginta. The Old Testament in Greek According to the Septuagint. Volume 3: Hosea-4 Maccabees, Psalms of Solomon, Enoch, The Odes. Swete, Henry Barclay, editor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1905
καὶ ἀνηγγέλη τοῖς ἀνδράσιν τοῦ βασιλέως καὶ ταῖς δυνάμεσιν αἳ ἦσαν ἐν Ἰερουσαλὴμ πόλει Δαυείδ, ὅτι κατέβησαν ἄνδρες, οἵτινες διεσκέδασαν τὴν ἐντολὴν τοῦ βασιλέως, εἰς τοὺς κρυφοὺς ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ.
καὶ ἔδραμον ὀπίσω αὐτῶν πολλοί, καὶ καταλαβόντες αὐτοὺς παρενέβαλον ἐπ᾿ αὐτηύς, καὶ συνεστείλαντο πρὸς αὐτοὺς πόλεμον ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ τῶν σαββάτων·
καὶ εἶπαν πρὸς αὐτοὺς Ἕως τοῦ νῦν· ἐξελθόντες ποιήσατε κατὰ τὸν λόγον τοῦ βασιλέως, καὶ ζήσεοθε.
καὶ εἶπαν Οὐκ ἐξελευσόμεθα, οὐδὲ ποιήσομεν τὸν λόγον τοῦ βασιλέως, βεβηλῶσαι τὴν ἡμέραν τῶν σαββάτων.
καὶ ἐτάχυναν ἐπʼ αὐτοὺς πόλεμον.
καὶ οὐκ ἀπεκρίθησαν αὐτοῖς, οὐδὲ λίθον ἐνετίναξον αὐτοῖς, οὐδὲ ἐνέφραξαν τοὺς κρυφούς,
λέγοντες Ἀποθάνωμεν οἱ πάντες ἐν τῆ ἁπλότητι ἡμῶν· μαρτυρεῖ ἐφʼ ἡμᾶς ὁ οὐρανὸς καὶ ἡ γῆ ὅτι ἀκρίτως ἀπόλλυτε ἡμᾶς.
καὶ ἀνέστησαν ἐπʼ αὐτοὺς ἐν τῷ πολέμῳ τοῖς σάββασιν· καὶ ἀπέθανον αὐτοὶ καὶ αἱ γυναῖκες αὐτῶν καὶ τὰ τέκνα αὐτῶν καὶ τὰ κτήνη αὐτῶν, ἕως χιλίων ψυχῶν ἀνθράπων.
Καὶ ἔγνω Ματταθίας καὶ οἱ φίλοι αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐπένθησαν ἐπʼ αὐτοὺς ἕως σφόδρα.
καὶ εἶπεν ἀνὴρ πρὸς τὸν πλησίον αὐτοῦ Ἐὰν πάντες ποιήσωμεν ὡς οἱ ἀδελφοὶ ἡμῶν ἐποίησαν, καὶ μὴ πολεμήσωμεν εἰς τὰ ἔθνη ὑπὲρ τῆς ψυχῆς ἡμῶν καὶ τῶν δικαιωμάτων ἡμῶν, νῦν τάχιον ἡμᾶς ὀλεθρεύσουσιν ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς.