Good News Translation
There was an elderly and highly respected teacher of the Law by the name of Eleazar, whose mouth was being forced open to make him eat pork.

New Revised Standard Version
Eleazar, one of the scribes in high position, a man now advanced in age and of noble presence, was being forced to open his mouth to eat swine’s flesh.

Contemporary English Version
Eleazar was an elderly gentleman and a highly respected teacher of the Law. One day some men forced his mouth open and tried to make him eat the meat of a pig.

New American Bible
Eleazar, one of the foremost scribes, a man advanced in age and of noble appearance, was being forced to open his mouth to eat pork.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Eleazar one of the chief of the scribes, a man advanced in years, and of a comely countenance, was pressed to open his mouth to eat swine's flesh.

Eleazar one of the chief of the scribes, a man advanced in years, and of a comely countenance, was pressed to open his mouth to eat swine's flesh.

2 Maccabees 6:16
And therefore he never withdraweth his mercy from us: but though he chastise his people with adversity he forsaketh them not.

2 Maccabees 6:17
But let this suffice in a few words for a warning to the readers. And now we must come to the narration.

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.