6
For thy bearing of children was after the fashion of a child of Abraham.
7
And, were it lawful for us to paint as on a tablet the religion of thy story, the spectators would not shudder at beholding the mother of seven children enduring for the sake of religion various tortures even unto death.
8
And it had been a worth thing to have inscribed upon the tomb itself these words as a memorial to those of the nation,
9
Here an aged priest, and an aged woman, and seven sons, are buried through the violence of a tyrant, who wished to destroy the polity of the Hebrews.
10
These also avenged their nation, looking unto God, and enduring torments unto death.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.