Douay Rheims Original ↷
Judges 3 📜 📕 ↷
16 Who made himself a two edged sword, having in the midst a haft in length the palm of a hand, and was girded therewith under his cassock on the right thigh.📜💬📚
17 And he presented the gifts to Eglon the king of Moab. And Eglon was exceeding gross.📜💬📚
18 And when he had presented the gifts unto him, he brought his fellows on the way that came with him.📜💬📚
19 And returning from Galgal, where the idols were, he said to the king: I have a secret message to thee, o king. And he commanded silence: & all being gone forth that were about him,📜💬📚
20 Aod went in to him: and he sat in a summer chamber alone, and he said: A word from God I have to thee. Who forthwith rose out of his throne.📜💬📚
21 And Aod put forth his left hand, & took the dagger from his right thigh, and fastened it into his belly📜💬📚
22 so mightily that the haft followed the blade in the wound, and was closed up fast with the most fat grease. Neither did he pluck out the dagger, but as he had strucken, so left it in the body: and forthwith by the secret parts of nature the ordure of the belly came forth.📜💬📚
23 But Aod shutting the doors of the chamber very diligently, & locking them sure,📜💬📚
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