11
He said to Bagoas, the eunuch who had charge of his personal affairs, "Go and persuade the Hebrew woman who is in your care to join us and to eat and drink with us.
9
Then she returned purified and stayed in the tent until she ate her food toward evening.
10
On the fourth day Holofernes held a banquet for his personal attendants only, and did not invite any of his officers.
11
He said to Bagoas, the eunuch who had charge of his personal affairs, "Go and persuade the Hebrew woman who is in your care to join us and to eat and drink with us.
12
For it would be a disgrace if we let such a woman go without having intercourse with her. If we do not seduce her, she will laugh at us."
13
So Bagoas left the presence of Holofernes, and approached her and said, "Let this pretty girl not hesitate to come to my lord to be honored in his presence, and to enjoy drinking wine with us, and to become today like one of the Assyrian women who serve in the palace of Nebuchadnezzar."
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