1With the death of Eleazar, the soldiers took the seven brothers and their mother to be tortured.
2Beating them with whips and leather straps, they tried to force them to eat the forbidden meat.
3The oldest of the young men said: Why do you delay, tyrant? We are ready to die rather than transgress the commandments of our fathers.
4We would shame our ancestors if we did not obey the law and take reason as our guide.
5O tyrant, counselor of transgression of the law, do not have pity on us while you torture us more than we have on ourselves.
6For we consider this piety, not being saved by transgression of our law, sweeter than life.
7You think to make us abandon our reasoning by torturing us, and thus force us to eat unclean meat.
8But your tortures are pleasant to us, when we endure them for the sake of virtue.
9And you, because of our impious destruction, will suffer from the hands of divine justice eternal torments by fire.
10When he said these things, the guards threw him into the fire and tortured him on the wheel.