20
Yet will I and my sons and my brethren walk in the covenant of our fathers.
21
God forbid that we should forsake the law and the ordinances.
22
We will not hearken to the king's words, to go from our religion, either on the right hand, or the left.
23
Now when he had left speaking these words, there came one of the Jews in the sight of all to sacrifice on the altar which was at Modin, according to the king's commandment.
24
Which thing when Mattathias saw, he was inflamed with zeal, and his reins trembled, neither could he forbear to shew his anger according to judgment: wherefore he ran, and slew him upon the altar.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.