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Certainly Holofernes, the while he went about by compass, found that the well, that flowed into the water conduit of (the) men of Israel, was (ad)dressed (or directed) at the south part without the city, and he commanded their water conduit to be cut asunder [or to be hewn down].

Nevertheless (the) wells were not far from the walls of the city, of which wells (the) men of Israel were seen to draw water by stealth, or privily, rather to refresh them(selves) than to drink.

But the sons of Ammon (or of Edom) and of Moab nighed to (or approached) Holofernes, and they said to him, The sons of Israel trust not in spear and arrow, but (the) hills [or the mountains] defend them, and (the) little hills set in the rock of stone make them strong.

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