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25     Sisera asked her for water to drink, and she gave him milk.
    She gave him the best cream in a beautiful bowl.
26     She took a tent peg in her left hand.
    She took a worker's hammer in her right hand.
    She hit the peg through Sisera's head.
    She broke his skull. She broke it completely.
    She knocked the sharp peg through his head.
27     He fell to the floor at her feet.
    He lay there and he did not move.
    He died at the place where he fell.
    Jael had killed him!

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25 He asked for water, and she gave him milk;(A)
    in a bowl fit for nobles she brought him curdled milk.
26 Her hand reached for the tent peg,
    her right hand for the workman’s hammer.
She struck Sisera, she crushed his head,
    she shattered and pierced his temple.(B)
27 At her feet he sank,
    he fell; there he lay.
At her feet he sank, he fell;
    where he sank, there he fell—dead(C).

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