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Judith 12 📜 📕 ↷
Holofernes Offers Treasure to Judith
1 THEN he bade her go in where his treasures were laid up, and bade her tarry there, and he appointed what should be given her of his own banquet.📜💬📚
2 To whom Judith answered, and said: Now I can not eat of these things, which thou commandest to be given me, lest there come displeasure upon me: but I will eat of these things, which I have brought.📜💬📚
3 To whom Holofernes said: If these things which thou hast brought with thee shall fail thee, what shall we do to thee?📜💬📚
4 And Judith said: Thy soul liveth my lord, that thy handmaid shall not spend all these things, till God do by my hand these things, which I have purposed. And his servants brought her into the tabernacle, which he had commanded.📜💬📚
Judith Gets Free Movement from Holofernes
5 And whilst she went in, she desired that she might have licence to go forth in the night and before day to prayer, & to beseech our Lord.📜💬📚
6 And he commanded his chamberlains, that as it pleased her, she should go out & come in to adore her God for three days.📜💬📚
7 And she went forth in the nights into the vale of Bethulia, & washed her self in a fountain of water.📜💬📚
8 And as she came up, she prayed our Lord the God of Israel, that he would direct her way to the delivery of his people.📜💬📚
9 And going in, she remained pure in the tabernacle, until she took her own meat in the evening.📜💬📚
Holofernes Invites Judith to Stay with Him
10 And it came to pass in the fourth day, Holofernes made a supper to his servants, and said to Vagao his eunuch: Go, and persuade that Hebrew woman, that she consent to her own accord to dwell with me.📜💬📚
11 For it is a foul thing with the Assyrians, if a woman mock a man in doing, that she pass free from him.📜💬📚
12 Then Vagao went into Judith, & said: Let not the good young maid fear to go in to my lord, that she may be honoured before his face, that she may eat with him & drink wine in joyfulness.📜💬📚
13 To whom Judith answered: Whom am I, that I should gain say my lord?📜💬📚
14 All that shall be good & best before his eyes, will I do. And whatsoever shall please him, that shall be best to me all the days of my life.📜💬📚
15 And she arose, and decked herself with her garments, and going in she stood before his face.📜💬📚
16 And the heart of Holofernes was strucken: for he burnt in the concupiscence of her.📜💬📚
17 And Holofernes said to her: Drink now, & sit down in joyfulness, because thou hast found grace before me.📜💬📚
18 And Judith said: I will drink my lord, because my soul is magnified this day above all my days.📜💬📚
Holofernes Becomes Drunk in Judith's Presence
19 And she took, and did eat, & drank before him those things, which her handmaid had prepared her.📜💬📚
20 And Holofernes was made pleasant toward her, & drank wine exceeding much, so much as he had never drunk in his life?📜💬📚
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