28. I ask you, child, gaze upon heaven and earth, and all that is in them, and understand that God made them, and the family of man, out of nothing.
29. So shall it be that you will not fear this executioner, but, participating worthily with your brothers, you shall accept death, so that, by this mercy, I shall receive you again with your brothers."
30. While she was still saying these things, the youth said: "What are you waiting for? I will not obey the precepts of the king, but the precepts of the law, which was given to us through Moses.
31. In truth, you, who have been the inventor of all malice against the Hebrews, will not escape the hand of God.
32. For we suffer these things because of our sins.
33. And if, for the sake of our chastisement and correction, the Lord our God is angry with us for a little while, yet still he will be reconciled again to his servants.
34. But as for you, O wicked and most disgraceful of all men, do be not be extolled over nothing, with vain hopes, while you are inflamed against his servants.
35. For you have not yet escaped the judgment of Almighty God, who examines all things.
36. Therefore, my brothers, having now sustained brief sorrow, have been brought under the covenant of eternal life. But, in truth, you, by the judgment of God, will be released into just punishment for your arrogance.
37. But I, like my brothers, deliver up my soul and my body for the sake of the laws of the fathers, calling upon God so as to bring forgiveness upon our nation sooner, and so that you, with torments and lashings, may confess that he alone is God.
38. Truly, in me and in my brothers, the wrath of the Almighty, which has been led over all our people justly, shall cease."
39. Then the king, burning with anger, raged against this one with cruelty beyond all the rest, bearing it indignantly that he himself was derided.
40. And so this one also died in purity, trusting in the Lord through all things.
41. Then, last of all, after the sons, the mother also was consumed.
42. Therefore, about the sacrifices and about the exceedingly great cruelties, enough has been said.