Good News Translation
For the pyramids he created a setting of tall columns on which there were carvings. Some of these carvings were of suits of armor and some were of ships. It was a monument to their victories, which travelers from overseas could visit.

New Revised Standard Version
For the pyramids he devised an elaborate setting, erecting about them great columns, and on the columns he put suits of armor for a permanent memorial, and beside the suits of armor he carved ships, so that they could be seen by all who sail the sea.

Contemporary English Version
He set up tall stone columns around the pyramids. Then he hung suits of armor on these columns, so that everyone would remember what his family had done. Next to the suits of armor he put carved figures of ships that could be seen by anyone passing by on the sea. This family burial place is a work of art, and even today it can be seen in Modein.

New American Bible
For the pyramids he devised a setting of massive columns, which he adorned with suits of armor as a perpetual memorial, and next to the armor carved ships, which could be seen by all who sailed the sea.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And round about these he set great pillars; and upon the pillars, arms, for a perpetual memory; and by the arms, ships carved, which might be seen by all that sailed on the sea.

And round about these he set great pillars; and upon the pillars, arms, for a perpetual memory; and by the arms, ships carved, which might be seen by all that sailed on the sea.

1 Maccabees 13:27
And Simon built over the sepulchre of his father and of his brethren, a building lofty to the sight, of polished stone, behind and before:

1 Maccabees 13:28
And he set up seven pyramids, one against another, for his father, and his mother, and his four brethren:

1 Maccabees 13:30
This is the sepulchre that he made in Modin, even unto this day.

1 Maccabees 13:31
But Tryphon, when he was upon a journey with the young king, Antiochus, treacherously slew him.