4
When the Israelites saw their vast numbers they were greatly terrified, and every one said to his neighbor, "These men will now lick up the face of the whole land; neither the high mountains nor the valleys nor the hills will bear their weight."
5
Then each man took up his weapons, and when they had kindled fires on their towers they remained on guard all that night.
6
On the second day Holofernes led out all his cavalry in full view of the Israelites in Bethulia,
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and examined the approaches to the city, and visited the springs that supplied their water, and seized them and set guards of soldiers over them, and then returned to his army.
8
Then all the chieftains of the people of Esau and all the leaders of the Moabites and the commanders of the coastland came to him and said,
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