Good News Translation
that they made up their minds to destroy all the Jews who were living among them. So they began to murder and kill our people.

New Revised Standard Version
and they determined to destroy the descendants of Jacob who lived among them. So they began to kill and destroy among the people.

Contemporary English Version
and were determined to kill every Jew who lived among them. So they started killing the Jewish people.

New American Bible
So they decided to destroy the descendants of Jacob who were among them, and they began to kill and eradicate the people.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they thought to destroy the generation of Jacob that were among them, and they began to kill some of the people, and to persecute them.

And they thought to destroy the generation of Jacob that were among them, and they began to kill some of the people, and to persecute them.

1 Maccabees 4:61
And he placed a garrison there, to keep it, and he fortified it, to secure Bethsura, that the people might have a defence against Idumea.

1 Maccabees 5:1
Now it came to pass, when the nations round about heard that the altar and the sanctuary were built up, as before, that they were exceeding angry.

1 Maccabees 5:3
Then Judas fought against the children of Esau in Idumea, and them that were in Acrabathane: because they beset the Israelites round about, and he made a great slaughter of them.

1 Maccabees 5:4
And he remembered the malice of the children of Bean: who were a snare and a stumblingblock to the people, by lying in wait for them in the way.