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For as I live, and by the power of my kingdom, what I have spoken my hand will execute.
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And you -- take care not to transgress any of your sovereign's commands, but be sure to carry them out just as I have ordered you; and do not delay about it."
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So Holofernes left the presence of his master, and called together all the commanders, generals, and officers of the Assyrian army,
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and mustered the picked troops by divisions as his lord had ordered him to do, one hundred and twenty thousand of them, together with twelve thousand archers on horseback,
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and he organized them as a great army is marshaled for a campaign.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.