Good News Translation
and anyone who was caught with a copy of the sacred books or who obeyed the Law was put to death by order of the king.

New Revised Standard Version
Anyone found possessing the book of the covenant, or anyone who adhered to the law, was condemned to death by decree of the king.

Contemporary English Version
They obeyed Antiochus and murdered everyone they caught obeying God's Law. These troops also killed any Jew who owned a copy of the Scriptures.

New American Bible
On the fifteenth day of the month Kislev, in the year one hundred and forty-five, the king erected the desolating abomination upon the altar of burnt offerings, and in the surrounding cities of Judah they built pagan altars.

Douay-Rheims Bible
On the fifteenth day of the month, Casleu, in the hundred and forty-fifth year, king Antiochus set up the abominable idol of desolation upon the altar of God, and they built altars throughout all the cities of Juda round about:

On the fifteenth day of the month, Casleu, in the hundred and forty-fifth year, king Antiochus set up the abominable idol of desolation upon the altar of God, and they built altars throughout all the cities of Juda round about:

1 Maccabees 1:55
Then many of the people were gathered to them that had forsaken the law of the Lord: and they committed evils in the land:

1 Maccabees 1:56
And they drove away the people of Israel into lurking holes, and into the secret places of fugitives.

1 Maccabees 1:58
And they burnt incense, and sacrificed at the doors of the houses and in the streets.

1 Maccabees 1:59
And they cut in pieces, and burnt with fire the books of the law of God: