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For no man durst knock, or open and go into the chamber of the general of the Assyrians.
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But when his captains and tribunes were come, and all the chiefs of the army of the king of the Assyrians, they said to the chamberlains
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Go in, and awake him, for the mice coming out of their holes, have presumed to challenge us to fight.
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Then Vagao going into his chamber, stood before the curtain, and made a clapping with his hands: for he thought that he was sleeping with Judith.
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But when with hearkening, he perceived no motion of one lying, he came near to the curtain, and lifting it up, and seeing the body of Holofernes, lying upon the ground, without the head, sweltering in his blood, he cried out with a loud voice, with weeping, and rent his garments.
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And he went into the tent of Judith, and not finding her, he ran out to the people,
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And said: One Hebrew woman hath made confusion in the house of king Nabuchodonosor: for behold Holofernes lieth upon the ground, and his head is not upon him.
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Now when the chiefs of the army of the Assyrians had heard this, they all rent their garments, and an intolerable fear and dread fell upon them, and their minds were troubled exceedingly.
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And there was a very great cry in the midst of their camp.