6
Then at my return the sword of my army and the spear of my servants shall pierce your sides, and you shall fall among their wounded.
7
Now my slaves are going to take you back into the hill country and put you in one of the towns beside the passes.
8
You will not die until you perish along with them.
9
If you really hope in your heart that they will not be taken, then do not look downcast! I have spoken, and none of my words shall fail to come true."
10
Then Holofernes ordered his slaves, who waited on him in his tent, to seize Achior and take him away to Bethulia and hand him over to the Israelites.
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