Good News Translation
On that day they decided that if anyone attacked them on the Sabbath, they would defend themselves, so that they would not all die as other Jews had died in the caves.

Contemporary English Version
On that very day they made up their minds not to die like their relatives in the caves, and they decided to fight anyone who attacked them on the Sabbath.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they determined in that day, saying: Whosoever shall come up against us to fight on the sabbath day, we will fight against him: and we will not all die, as our brethren that were slain in the secret places.

And they determined in that day, saying: Whosoever shall come up against us to fight on the sabbath day, we will fight against him: and we will not all die, as our brethren that were slain in the secret places.

1 Maccabees 2:39
And Mathathias and his friends heard of it, and they mourned for them exceedingly.

1 Maccabees 2:40
And every man said to his neighbour: If we shall all do as our brethren have done, and not fight against the heathens for our lives, and our justifications, they will now quickly root us out of the earth.

1 Maccabees 2:42
Then was assembled to them the congregation of the Assideans, the stoutest of Israel, every one that had a good will for the law.

1 Maccabees 2:43
And all they that fled from the evils, joined themselves to them, and were a support to them.