1 Maccabees 1:14

¹²So this device pleased them well.

¹³Then certain of the people were so forward herein, that they went to the king, who gave them licence to do after the ordinances of the heathen:

— 1 Maccabees 1:14 —

¹⁵And made themselves uncircumcised, and forsook the holy covenant, and joined themselves to the heathen, and were sold to do mischief.

¹⁶Now when the kingdom was established before Antiochus, he thought to reign over Egypt that he might have the dominion of two realms.