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For your servant is religious, and serves the God of heaven day and night; therefore, my lord, I will remain with you, and every night your servant will go out into the valley, and I will pray to God and he will tell me when they have committed their sins.
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And I will come and tell you, and then you shall go out with your whole army, and not one of them will withstand you.
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Then I will lead you through the middle of Judea, till you come to Jerusalem; and I will set your throne in the midst of it; and you will lead them like sheep that have no shepherd, and not a dog will so much as open its mouth to growl at you. For this has been told me, by my foreknowledge; it was announced to me, and I was sent to tell you."
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Her words pleased Holofernes and all his servants, and they marveled at her wisdom and said,
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"There is not such a woman from one end of the earth to the other, either for beauty of face or wisdom of speech!"