10
You shall go and seize all their territory for me in advance. They must yield themselves to you, and you shall hold them for me until the day of their punishment.
11
But to those who resist show no mercy, but hand them over to slaughter and plunder throughout your whole region.
12
For as I live, and by the power of my kingdom, what I have spoken I will accomplish by my own hand.
13
And you—take care not to transgress any of your lord's commands, but carry them out exactly as I have ordered you; do it without delay."
14
So Holofernes left the presence of his lord, and summoned all the commanders, generals, and officers of the Assyrian army.
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