Good News Translation
He replied in his native language, "I will never eat it!" So the soldiers tortured him, just as they had the first one,

New Revised Standard Version
He replied in the language of his ancestors and said to them, “No.” Therefore he in turn underwent tortures as the first brother had done.

Contemporary English Version
In his native language the boy replied, "No!" Then the soldiers tortured him, just as they had done to the first brother.

New American Bible
Answering in the language of his ancestors, he said, “Never!” So he in turn suffered the same tortures as the first.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But he answered in his own language, and said: I will not do it. Wherefore he also, in the next place, received the torments of the first:

But he answered in his own language, and said: I will not do it. Wherefore he also, in the next place, received the torments of the first:

2 Maccabees 7:6
Saying: The Lord God will look upon the truth, and will take pleasure in us, as Moses declared in the profession of the canticle; And in his servants he will take pleasure.

2 Maccabees 7:7
So when the first was dead after this manner, they brought the next to make him a mocking stock: and when they had pulled off the skin of his head with the hair, they asked him if he would eat, before he were punished throughout the whole body in every limb.

2 Maccabees 7:9
And when he was at the last gasp, he said thus: Thou indeed, O most wicked man, destroyest us out of this present life: but the King of the world will raise us up, who die for his laws, in the resurrection of eternal life.

2 Maccabees 7:10
After him the third was made a mocking-stock, and when he was required, he quickly put forth his tongue, and courageously stretched out his hands: