2 Maccabees 15:2-4

New Catholic Bible

² Those Jews who had been forced to accompany him pleaded: “Do not massacre them in so savage and barbaric a fashion. Show respect for the day that the All-seeing has exalted and sanctified above all other days.” ³ At this, the thrice-accursed wretch asked if there was a sovereign in heaven who had commanded the observance of the Sabbath day. ⁴ When the Jews declared, “The living Lord himself, the ruler in heaven, ordered us to keep holy the seventh day,”