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When Achior had finished saying these things, all the people standing around the tent began to complain; Holofernes' officers and all the inhabitants of the seacoast and Moab insisted that he should be cut to pieces.
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They said, "We are not afraid of the Israelites; they are a people with no strength or power for making war.
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Therefore let us go ahead, Lord Holofernes, and your vast army will swallow them up."
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