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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,