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And make my speech and deceit to be their wound and stripe, who have purposed cruel things
against thy covenant, and thy hallowed house, and against the top of Sion, and against the house
of the possession of thy children.
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And make every nation and tribe to acknowledge that thou art the God of all power and might,
and that there is none other that protecteth the people of Israel but thou.
CHAPTER 10
Now after that she had ceased to cry unto the God of Israel, and bad made an end of all these words.
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She rose where she had fallen down, and called her maid, and went down into the house in the
which she abode in the sabbath days, and in her feast days,
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And pulled off the sackcloth which she had on, and put off the garments of her widowhood,
and washed her body all over with water, and anointed herself with precious ointment, and braided
the hair of her head, and put on a tire upon it, and put on her garments of gladness, wherewith she
was clad during the life of Manasses her husband.
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And she took sandals upon her feet, and put about her her bracelets, and her chains, and her
rings, and her earrings, and all her ornaments, and decked herself bravely, to allure the eyes of all
men that should see her.
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Then she gave her maid a bottle of wine, and a cruse of oil, and filled a bag with parched corn,
and lumps of figs, and with fine bread; so she folded all these things together, and laid them upon
her.
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Thus they went forth to the gate of the city of Bethulia, and found standing there Ozias and
the ancients of the city, Chabris and Charmis.
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And when they saw her, that her countenance was altered, and her apparel was changed, they
wondered at her beauty very greatly, and said unto her.
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The God, the God of our fathers give thee favour, and accomplish thine enterprizes to the glory
of the children of Israel, and to the exaltation of Jerusalem. Then they worshipped God.
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And she said unto them, Command the gates of the city to be opened unto me, that I may go
forth to accomplish the things whereof ye have spoken with me. So they commanded the young
men to open unto her, as she had spoken.
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And when they had done so, Judith went out, she, and her maid with her; and the men of the
city looked after her, until she was gone down the mountain, and till she had passed the valley, and
could see her no more.
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Thus they went straight forth in the valley: and the first watch of the Assyrians met her,
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And took her, and asked her, Of what people art thou? and whence comest thou? and whither
goest thou? And she said, I am a woman of the Hebrews, and am fled from them: for they shall be
given you to be consumed:
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