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And take thou heed that thou transgress none of the commandments of thy lord, but accomplish them fully as I have commanded thee, and defer not to do them."
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Then Holofernes went forth from the presence of his lord, and called all the governors and captains and the officers of the army of Assyria;
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and he mustered the chosen men for the battle, as his lord had commanded him, unto a hundred and twenty thousand and twelve thousand archers on horseback,
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and he ranged them as a great army is ordered for the war.
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And he took camels and asses for their transport, a very great number, and sheep and oxen and goats without number for their provision,
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and plenty of victuals for every man of the army, and very much gold and silver out of the king's house.
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Then he went forth with all his power to go before King Nebuchadnezzar on the expedition, and to cover all the face of the earth westward with their chariots and horsemen and their chosen footmen.
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A great number also of sundry countries came with them like locusts and like the sand of the earth; for the multitude was without number.
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And they went forth from Nineveh three days' journey toward the plain of Bectileth, and from Bectileth pitched camp near the mountain which is at the left hand of the Upper Cilicia.
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Then he took all his army, his footmen and horsemen and chariots, and went from thence into the hill country,
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and destroyed Put and Lud, and despoiled all the children of Rassis and the children of Ishmael, who were toward the wilderness at the south of the land of the Chellians.