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For as I live, and by the power of my kingdom, what I have spoken I will accomplish by my own hand.
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And you—take care not to transgress any of your lord's commands, but carry them out exactly as I have ordered you; do it without delay."
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So Holofernes left the presence of his lord, and summoned all the commanders, generals, and officers of the Assyrian army.
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He mustered the picked troops by divisions as his lord had ordered him to do, one hundred twenty thousand of them, together with twelve thousand archers on horseback,
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and he organized them as a great army is marshaled for a campaign.
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