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For now is the time to help Thine inheritance and to execute mine enterprises, to the destruction of the enemies who have risen against us."
6
Then she came to the pillar of the bed, which was at Holofernes' head, and took down his sword from thence,
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and approached to his bed and took hold of the hair of his head, and said, "Strengthen me, O Lord God of Israel, this day."
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And she smote twice upon his neck with all her might, and she took away his head from him,
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and tumbled his body down from the bed, and pulled down the canopy from the pillars; and immediately after, she went forth and gave Holofernes' head to her maid,
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