19 And Mattathias answered and said with a loud voice, “If all the nations that are in the house of the king’s dominion listen to him, to fall away each one from the worship of his fathers, and have chosen to follow his commandments, (WEB) 20 yet I and my sons and my kindred will walk in the covenant of our fathers. (WEB) 21 Far be it from us that we should forsake the law and the ordinances. (WEB)
1 Maccabees 2:19–21
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