2 Maccabees 6:5-7

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁵ The altar also was filled with unlawful things, which were forbidden by the laws.

⁶ And neither were the sabbaths kept, nor the solemn days of the fathers observed, neither did any man plainly profess himself to be a Jew.

⁷ But they were led by bitter constraint on the king's birthday to the sacrifices: and when the feast of Bacchus was kept, they were compelled to go about crowned with ivy in honour of Bacchus.