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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.

13 And for this cause I thought within me, and I said, I shall go to the face, or the presence, of the prince Holofernes, for to show to him the privates (or the secrets) of the men of Israel, and I shall show to him, by what entry he may get them, so that not one man of his host fall down [or so that there fall not one man of his host].

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