10
You shall go and seize all their territory for me in advance. They will yield themselves to you, and you shall hold them for me till the day of their punishment.
11
But if they refuse, your eye shall not spare and you shall 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 my hand will execute.
13
And you -- take care not to transgress any of your sovereign's commands, but be sure to carry them out just as I have ordered you; and do not delay about it."
14
So Holofernes left the presence of his master, and called together all the commanders, generals, and officers of the Assyrian army,
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