Judith 13:10-12

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

¹⁰ who placed it in her food bag.

Judith Returns to Bethulia

Then the two of them went out together, as they were accustomed to do for prayer. They passed through the camp, circled around the valley, and went up the mountain to Bethulia, and came to its gates. ¹¹ From a distance Judith called out to the sentries at the gates, ‘Open, open the gate! God, our God, is with us, still showing his power in Israel and his strength against our enemies, as he has done today!’

¹² When the people of her town heard her voice, they hurried down to the town gate and summoned the elders of the town.