Good News Translation
But you, my sons, must be devoted to the Law and ready to die to defend God's covenant with our ancestors.

New Revised Standard Version
Now, my children, show zeal for the law, and give your lives for the covenant of our ancestors.

Contemporary English Version
But you, my sons, should be faithful to God's Law and be willing to die for the agreement that our ancestors made with God.

New American Bible
Therefore, my children, be zealous for the law and give your lives for the covenant of our ancestors.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now, therefore, O my sons, be ye zealous for the law, and give your lives for the covenant of your fathers.

Now, therefore, O my sons, be ye zealous for the law, and give your lives for the covenant of your fathers.

1 Maccabees 2:48
And they recovered the law out of the hands of the nations, and out of the hands of the kings: and they yielded not the horn to the sinner.

1 Maccabees 2:49
Now the days drew near that Mathathias should die, and he said to his sons: Now hath pride and chastisement gotten strength, and the time of destruction, and the wrath of indignation:

1 Maccabees 2:51
And call to remembrance the works of the fathers, which they have done in their generations: and you shall receive great glory, and an everlasting name.

1 Maccabees 2:52
Was not Abraham found faithful in temptation, and it was reputed to him unto justice?