Judith 10:11-13

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

Judith Is Captured

¹¹ As the women^[a] were going straight on through the valley, an Assyrian patrol met her ¹² and took her into custody. They asked her, ‘To what people do you belong, and where are you coming from, and where are you going?’ She replied, ‘I am a daughter of the Hebrews, but I am fleeing from them, for they are about to be handed over to you to be devoured. ¹³ I am on my way to see Holofernes the commander of your army, to give him a true report; I will show him a way by which he can go and capture all the hill country without losing one of his men, captured or slain.’