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O children of Yis’rael, descendants of the seed of Avraham, obey this Torah and in every way be covenant-faithful,
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knowing that Torah-faithful reasoning rules over the emotions, and those not only inward but outward.
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Therefore those people who gave up their bodies to pains for the sake of covenantal Way were not only admired by men, but were deemed worthy of a portion from Elohim.
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The people through them obtained peace, and having renewed the observance of the Torah in their land, drove the enemy out of the land.
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The tyrant Antiyokhos was both punished on earth, and is punished now that he is dead; for when he was quite unable to compel the children of Yis’rael to adopt foreign customs, and to desert the manner of life of their fathers,
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then, departing from Yerushalayim, he made war against the men of Paras.
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The righteous mother of the seven children spoke also as follows to her offspring: “I was a pure virgin, and didn’t go beyond my father’s house, but I took care of the rib from which woman was made.
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No destroyer of the desert or ravisher of the plain injured me, nor did the destructive, deceitful snake make plunder of my chaste virginity. I remained with my husband during the time of my maturity.
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When these, my children, arrived at maturity, their father died. He was blessed! For having sought out a life of fertility in children, he was not grieved with a period of loss of children.
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He used to teach you, when yet with you, the Torah and the prophets.
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He used to read to you about the slaying of Hevel (Abel) by Qayin (Cain), the offering up of Yitzchaq, and the imprisonment of Yosef.
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He used to tell you of the zealous Pinechas (Phinehas), and informed you of Chananyah, Azaryah, and Misha’el in the fire.
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He used to glorify Dani’el, who was in the den of lions, and pronounce him blessed.
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He used to remind you of the scroll of Yeshayahu (Isaiah), which says, “Even if you pass through the fire, it won’t burn you.”
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He chanted to you Daviyd, the hymn writer, who says, “Many are the afflictions of the just.”
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He declared the proverbs of Shəlomah (Solomon), who says, “He is a tree of life to all those who do His will.”
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He used to confirm what Yechezqel (Ezekiel) said: “Will these dry bones live?”
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For he didn’t forget the song which Mosheh taught, proclaiming, “I will kill, and I will make alive.”
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This is our life and the length of our days.
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O that bitter, and yet not bitter, day when the bitter tyrant of the Yevanim, quenching fire with fire in his cruel cauldrons, brought with boiling rage the seven sons of the daughter of Avraham to the rack, and to all his torments!
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He pierced the balls of their eyes, and cut out their tongues, and put them to death with varied tortures.
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Therefore retribution from Elohim pursued and will pursue the pestilent wretch.
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But the children of Avraham, with their victorious mother, are assembled together to the choir of their father, having received pure and immortal inner lives from Elohim.
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To Elohim be glory forever and ever. Amen.