Good News Translation
Those in charge of the sacrifice had been friends of Eleazar for a long time, and because of this friendship they told him privately to bring meat that was lawful for him to eat. He need only pretend to eat the pork, they said, and in this way he would not be put to death.

New Revised Standard Version
Those who were in charge of that unlawful sacrifice took the man aside because of their long acquaintance with him, and privately urged him to bring meat of his own providing, proper for him to use, and to pretend that he was eating the flesh of the sacrificial meal that had been commanded by the king,

Contemporary English Version
The men in charge of the lawless sacrifice had known Eleazar for a long time. So they took him aside and said to him in private: Get some meat that your religion says can be eaten. Then pretend you are eating meat from the pig that the king ordered us to sacrifice.

New American Bible
Those in charge of that unlawful sacrifice took the man aside, because of their long acquaintance with him, and privately urged him to bring his own provisions that he could legitimately eat, and only to pretend to eat the sacrificial meat prescribed by the king.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But they that stood by, being moved with wicked pity, for the old friendship they had with the man, taking him aside, desired that flesh might be brought which it was lawful for him to eat, that he might make as if he had eaten, as the king had commanded, of the flesh of the sacrifice:

But they that stood by, being moved with wicked pity, for the old friendship they had with the man, taking him aside, desired that flesh might be brought which it was lawful for him to eat, that he might make as if he had eaten, as the king had commanded, of the flesh of the sacrifice:

2 Maccabees 6:19
But he, choosing rather a most glorious death than a hateful life, went forward voluntarily to the torment.

2 Maccabees 6:20
And considering in what manner he was to come to it, patiently bearing, he determined not to do any unlawful things for the love of life.

2 Maccabees 6:22
That by so doing he might be delivered from death; and for the sake of their old friendship with the man, they did him this courtesy.

2 Maccabees 6:23
But he began to consider the dignity of his age, and his ancient years, and the inbred honour of his grey head, and his good life and conversation from a child; and he answered without delay, according to the ordinances of the holy law made by God, saying, that he would rather be sent into the other world.