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Judith 11:15-17
New Catholic Bible
Judith 11:15-17
New Catholic Bible
15 On the very day that authorization arrives and they act upon it, they will be handed over to you to be destroyed.
16 “When I, your servant, learned all this, I fled from them. God has sent me to accomplish with you such deeds that will astonish people throughout the world whenever they learn about them. 17 [a]I, your servant, am a God-fearing woman, and I worship the God of heaven night and day. Now, my lord, I ask your authorization to remain with you. Every night your servant will go out into the valley and pray to God. He will reveal to me when they have committed their sinful acts.
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- Judith 11:17 Judith takes advantage of the idea of the pagans who believed in divine communications given as oracles in determinate places almost always at night, and says that she is going to receive the orders of her God outside the camp. She does this so as to have ease of flight once Holofernes is slain (see Jud 13:10).
