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And she entered in, and dwelled clean in the tabernacle, till that she took her meat (or her food) in the eventide.

10 And it was done in (or on) the fourth day, Holofernes made a supper to (or for) his servants, and he said to Bagoas, the chamberlain, Go thou, and counsel that Hebrew woman, (so) that she consent willfully (or willingly) to dwell with me. [And it is done the fourth day, Holofernes made a supper to his servants, and said to Bagoas, (a) gelding, Go, and sweetly move this Hebrew, that willfully she assent to dwell with me.]

11 For it is a foul thing with men of Assyria, if a woman scorn a man, in her doing, and that she pass free from him. [Forsooth a foul thing it is with Assyrians, if a woman scorn a man, doing that she pass from him without her office.]

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