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10 Certainly Judith prayed (to) the Lord, and she passed forth through the gates, and her handmaid with her. [Then Judith praying the Lord, passed through the gates, she and her free maiden.]

11 And it was done, when she came down off (or from) the hill about the rising of the day, the spyers of (the) Assyrians met her, and they held her, and said, From whence comest thou, either whither goest thou? [It is done forsooth, when she came down the hill about spring of the day, against-came to her the spies of the Assyrians, and held her, saying, Whence comest thou, or whither goest thou?]

12 And she answered, I am a daughter of (the) Hebrews, and therefore I have fled from the face of them, for I know, that it shall come, that they shall be given to you into prey, for they have despised you, and for they would not betake themselves willfully (or willingly) to you, (so) that they should have found grace in your sight.

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