Judith 10:11-13

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Judith Is Captured

¹¹ As the women^[a] were going straight on through the valley, an Assyrian patrol met her^{(A) 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.^{(B) 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.”