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25 Sisera asked for water. She gave him milk.
    In a bowl fit for nobles she brought him buttermilk.
26 Her hand reached out for a tent stake.
    Her right hand reached for a hammer.
She hit Sisera. She crushed his head.
    She drove the stake right through his head.
27 He sank down. He fell at her feet.
    He was lying there.
At her feet he sank down. He fell.
    He fell where he sank down.
    That’s where he died.

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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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