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Judith 13:8-10
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Judith 13:8-10
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
8 Then she struck his neck twice with all her might and cut off his head.(A) 9 Next she rolled his body off the bed and pulled down the canopy from the posts. Soon afterward she went out and gave Holofernes’s head to her maid,(B) 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, went up the mountain to Bethulia, and came to its gates.(C)
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