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And Judith left of (or by) him, or living after him, was (a) widow then three years and six months.

And in the higher parts of her house she made to her a privy closet, in which she dwelled close with her damsels [or with her handwomen];

and she had an hair-shirt on her loins, and she fasted all the days of (her) life, except sabbaths, and the beginnings of months, or the first days of the moon, and the feasts of the house of Israel. [and, having upon her loins an hair-shirt, fasted all the days of her life, save sabbaths, and new moons, and the feasts of the house of Israel.]

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