4 Maccabees 6:15

15 We will set some cooked meat in front of you. Save yourself by pretending that it is pork and eat it."

4 Maccabees 6:15 In-Context

13 partly because of their previous relationship with him, and partly out of admiration for his endurance. These people came to him and said,

14 "Eleazar, why are you throwing your life away so thoughtlessly in the midst of these torments?

15 We will set some cooked meat in front of you. Save yourself by pretending that it is pork and eat it."

16 Eleazar screamed out as if this advice were even more painful than the whips:

17 "May we who are Abraham's children never think so wickedly that we would pretend to act this inappropriately because we are cowards!