13. Therefore, what is it to us that we still live?"
14. And Mattathias and his sons tore their garments, and they covered themselves with haircloth, and they lamented greatly.
15. And those who had been sent from king Antiochus came to that place, to compel those who fled into the city of Modin to immolate, and to burn frankincense, and to depart from the law of God.