1 Maccabees 1:50-52

Wycliffe Bible

⁵⁰ And (that) whoever did not by the word of king Antiochus, should die.

⁵¹ By all these words he wrote to all his realm, and above-set [or before-set] princes to the people (and set leaders over the people), which should constrain these things for to be done. And they commanded to (the) cities of Judea for to make sacrifice.

⁵² And many of the people were gathered to them, which forsook the law of the Lord, and did evils on (the) earth (or in the land).