5
Now is the time to help your inheritance and to accomplish my plans to destroy the enemies who have risen up against us.
6
Then she went to the bedpost near Holofernes' head and took down his sword.
7
When she came closer to the bed, she grabbed the hair on his head and said, "Give me strength today, Lord God of Israel."
8
She struck him in the neck twice with all her might and cut off his head.
9
Then she rolled his body off the bed and pulled down the canopy from the rods. After a little while she went out and handed Holofernes' head to her servant,