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Then the kings and princes of all (the) cities and provinces, that is, of Syria, of Mesopotamia, and Celosyria (or Greater Syria), and of Lebanon, and of Cilicia, sent their messengers, [or their legates], (or their ambassadors). And when they came to Holofernes, they said,

Thine indignation cease about us [or Cease thine indignation about us]; for it is better, that we live and serve Nebuchadnezzar, the great king, and to be subject to thee, than that we die, and suffer with our perishing the harms of our servage, or our thralldom (or our servitude), that is, suffer more harms then is servage.

Each city of ours [or All our cities], and all our possession(s), all our mountains, and little hills, and our fields, and droves of oxen, and flocks of sheep, and of goats, and of horses, and of camels, and all our riches and our meines (or our households) be in thy sight;

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