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12 Enter ye, and raise ye him up; for mice be gone out of the caves, and they dare (to) move us to battle. [Goeth, and areareth him; for mice gone out of their caves be hardy to call forth us to battle.]

13 Then Bagoas entered into his closet [or into his privy chamber], and he stood before the curtain of his bed, and he made beating together (or clapping) with his hands; for he supposed him to sleep with Judith.

14 But when by the wit, or listening, of his ears he perceived not any stirring of (or by) Holofernes lying there, he came nigh and nighed (or approached) to the curtain, and he drew it up, or he raised it, and he saw the dead body of Holofernes without (his) head, defouled in his (own) blood, and lying upon the earth (or the ground), and he cried (out) with (a) great (or with a loud) voice with weeping, and rent his clothes. [But when no moving of him lying with the wit of ears perceived, he went to nighing (or approaching) to the curtain, and rearing it, and seeing the carrion of Holofernes without (a) head to lie rotting in his blood upon the earth, cried out with a great voice with weeping, and cut his clothes.]

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