Judith 11:12-14
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
12 Because their food has given out and all their water is running low, they have decided to kill their animals, and are determined to consume all the things which God in his laws has forbidden them to eat. 13 They have decided that they would use the first fruits of grain and the tithes of wine and oil, which they had consecrated and reserved for the priests who minister in the presence of our God in Jerusalem—things which the people should not so much as touch with their hands.(A) 14 They have sent messengers to Jerusalem to bring back permission from the senate, for even there people have done these things.(B)
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