1
Then he commanded them to bring her in to where his table was set, and he ordered them to place before her some of his own food and wine to drink.
2
But Judith said, "I won't eat this, or it will be an offense. I'll have enough to eat from what I brought with me."
3
Holofernes said to her, "But if your supply runs out, where can we get similar food for you, since there is no one else here from your nation?"
4
Judith said to him, "As surely as you live, my master, your slave woman won't use up what she brought, before the Lord accomplishes by my hand what he has determined."
5
Then Holofernes' attendants led her into the tent, and she slept there until the middle of the night. She got up when it was the first watch of the morning