18
Eleazar, one of the principal scribes, an aged man, and of a well favoured countenance, was constrained to open his mouth, and to eat swine's flesh.
16
And therefore he never withdraweth his mercy from us: and though he punish with adversity, yet doth he never forsake his people.
17
But let this that we at spoken be for a warning unto us. And now will we come to the declaring of the matter in a few words.
18
Eleazar, one of the principal scribes, an aged man, and of a well favoured countenance, was constrained to open his mouth, and to eat swine's flesh.
19
But he, choosing rather to die gloriously, than to live stained with such an abomination, spit it forth, and came of his own accord to the torment,
20
As it behoved them to come, that are resolute to stand out against such things, as are not lawful for love of life to be tasted.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.