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Thou therefore shalt go forth. and take beforehand for me all their coasts: and if they will yield themselves unto thee, thou shalt reserve them for me till the day of their punishment.
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But concerning them that rebel, let not thine eye spare them; but put them to the slaughter, and spoil them wheresoever thou goest.
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For as I live, and by the power of my kingdom, whatsoever I have spoken, that will I do by mine hand.
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And take thou heed that thou transgress none of the commandments of thy lord, but accomplish them fully, as I have commanded thee, and defer not to do them.
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Then Holofernes went forth from the presence of his lord, and called ail the governors and captains, and the officers of the army of Assur;
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And he mustered the chosen men for the battle, as his lord had commanded him, unto an hundred and twenty thousand, and twelve thousand archers on horseback;
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And he ranged them, as a great army is ordered for the war.
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And he took camels and asses for their carriages, a very great number; and sheep and oxen and goats without number for their provision:
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And plenty of victual for every man of the army, and very much gold and silver out of the king's house.
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Then he went forth and all his power to go before king Nabuchodonosor in the voyage, and to cover all the face of the earth westward with their chariots, and horsemen, and their chosen footmen.
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A great number also sundry countries came with them like locusts, and like the sand of the earth: for the multitude was without number.