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And because the children of Israel know they have offended their God, thy dread is upon them.
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Moreover also a famine hath come upon them, and for drought of water they are already to be counted among the dead.
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And they have a design even to kill their cattle, and to drink the blood of them.
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And the consecrated things of the Lord their God which God forbade them to touch, in corn, wine, and oil, these have they purposed to make use of, and they design to consume the things which they ought not to touch with their hands: therefore because they do these things, it is certain they will be given up to destruction.
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And I thy handmaid knowing this, am fled from them, and the Lord hath sent me to tell thee these very things.
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For I thy handmaid worship God even now that I am with thee, and thy handmaid will go out, and I will pray to God,
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And he will tell me when he will repay them for their sins, and I will come and tell thee, so that I may bring thee through the midst of Jerusalem, and thou shalt have all the people of Israel, as sheep that have no shepherd, and there shall not so much as one dog bark against thee:
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Because these things are told me by the providence of God.
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And because God is angry with them, I am sent to tell these very things to thee.
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And all these words pleased Holofernes, and his servants, and they admired her wisdom, and they said one to another:
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There is not such another woman upon earth in look, in beauty, and in sense of words.