36. But they answered them not, neither did they cast a stone at them, nor stopped up the secret places,
37. Saying: Let us all die in our innocency: and heaven and earth shall be witnesses for us, that you put us to death wrongfully.
38. So they gave them battle on the sabbath: and they were slain with their wives, and their children, and their cattle, to the number of a thousand persons.
39. And Mathathias and his friends heard of it, and they mourned for them exceedingly.