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But if there is no transgression in their nation, then let my lord pass them by; for their Lord will defend them, and their God will protect them, and we shall be put to shame before the whole world."
22
When Achior had finished saying this, all the men standing around the tent began to complain; Holofernes' officers and all the men from the seacoast and from Moab insisted that he must be put to death.
23
"For," they said, "we will not be afraid of the Israelites; they are a people with no strength or power for making war.
24
Therefore let us go up, Lord Holofernes, and they will be devoured by your vast army."
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