Good News Translation
In that city there is a tower about 75 feet high. It is filled with ashes, and all around the inside of the tower is a platform sloping down into the ashes.

New Revised Standard Version
For there is a tower there, fifty cubits high, full of ashes, and it has a rim running around it that on all sides inclines precipitously into the ashes.

Contemporary English Version
In Beroea there was a 22 meters tower full of ashes, and the inside wall of the tower sloped down into the ash pile.

New American Bible
There is at that place a tower seventy-five feet high, full of ashes, with a circular rim sloping down steeply on all sides toward the ashes.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now there was in that place a tower fifty cubits high, having a heap of ashes on every side: this had a prospect steep down.

Now there was in that place a tower fifty cubits high, having a heap of ashes on every side: this had a prospect steep down.

2 Maccabees 13:3
Menelaus also joined himself with them: and with great deceitfulness besought Antiochus, not for the welfare of his country, but in hopes that he should be appointed chief ruler.

2 Maccabees 13:4
But the King of kings stirred up the mind of Antiochus against the sinner, and upon Lysias suggesting that he was the cause of all the evils, he commanded (as the custom is with them) that he should be apprehended and put to death in the same place.

2 Maccabees 13:6
From thence he commanded the sacrilegious wretch to be thrown down into the ashes, all men thrusting him forward unto death.

2 Maccabees 13:7
And by such a law it happened that Menelaus the transgressor of the law, was put to death: not having so much as burial in the earth.