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Then he commanded them to bring her in where his silver dishes were kept, and ordered them to set a table for her with some of his own food and to serve her with his own wine.
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But Judith said, "I cannot eat it, lest it be an offense; but I will be provided from the things I have brought with me."
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Holofernes said to her, "If your supply runs out, where can we get more like it for you? For none of your people is here with us."
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Judith replied, "As your soul lives, my lord, your servant will not use up the things I have with me before the Lord carries out by my hand what he has determined to do."
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Then the servants of Holofernes brought her into the tent, and she slept until midnight. Along toward the morning watch she arose
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and sent to Holofernes and said, "Let my lord now command that your servant be permitted to go out and pray."
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So Holofernes commanded his guards not to hinder her. And she remained in the camp for three days, and went out each night to the valley of Bethulia, and bathed at the spring in the camp.
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When she came up from the spring she prayed the Lord God of Israel to direct her way for the raising up of her people.