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Now the children of Israel, when they saw the multitude of them, were greatly troubled, and said every one to his neighbour, Now will these men lick up the face of the earth; for neither the high mountains, nor the valleys, nor the hills, are able to bear their weight.
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Then every man took up his weapons of war, and when they had kindled fires upon their towers, they remained and watched all that night.
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But in the second day Holofernes brought forth all his horsemen in the sight of the children of Israel which were in Bethulia,
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And viewed the passages up to the city, and came to the fountains of their waters, and took them, and set garrisons of men of war over them, and he himself removed toward his people.
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Then came unto him all the chief of the children of Esau, and all the governors of the people of Moab, and the captains of the sea coast, and said,