²¹ He arrogantly entered the sanctuary and took the golden altar, the lampstand for the light, and all its utensils.^{(A) 22} He took also the table for the bread of the Presence, the cups for drink offerings, the bowls, the golden censers, the curtain, the crowns, and the gold decoration on the front of the temple; he stripped it all off.^{(B) 23} He took the silver and the gold and the costly vessels; he took also the hidden treasures that he found.^(C)

⁵⁷ Anyone found possessing the book of the covenant or anyone who adhered to the law was condemned to death by decree of the king.

⁶⁰ According to the decree, they put to death the women who had their children circumcised^(A)

⁶¹ and their families and those who circumcised them, and they hung the infants from their mothers’ necks.

³⁵ Lysias was to send a force against them to wipe out and destroy the strength of Israel and the remnant of Jerusalem; he was to banish the memory of them from the place,^(A)