1 Maccabees 2:36-38

New Catholic Bible

³⁶ but they did not retaliate, neither hurling rocks nor barricading their hiding places. ³⁷ They only said, “Let us all die in a state of innocence. Heaven and earth are our witnesses that you are massacring us without the slightest justification.” ³⁸ Therefore, the enemy attacked on the Sabbath and massacred them along with their wives, their children, and their livestock—one thousand persons in all.