1. On another occasion a Jewish mother and her seven sons were arrested. The king was having them beaten to force them to eat pork.
2. Then one of the young men said, “What do you hope to gain by doing this? We would rather die than abandon the traditions of our ancestors.”
3. This made the king so furious that he gave orders for huge pans and cauldrons to be heated red-hot,
4. and it was done immediately. Then he told his men to cut off the tongue of the one who had spoken and to scalp him and chop off his hands and feet, while his mother and six brothers looked on.