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On another occasion a Jewish mother and her seven sons were arrested. The king was having them beaten to force them to eat pork.
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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."
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This made the king so furious that he gave orders for huge pans and kettles to be heated red hot,
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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.
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After the young man had been reduced to a helpless mass of breathing flesh, the king gave orders for him to be carried over and thrown into one of the pans. As a cloud of smoke streamed up from the pan, the brothers and their mother encouraged one another to die bravely, saying,