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And the sons of Israel, as soon as they saw the multitude of them, they bowed down themselves upon the earth, and threw [or putting] ashes upon their heads, and they prayed with one will, that God of Israel should show his mercy upon his people.

And they took their armours of battle, and they sat by the places by which the path of the straightway betwixt the hilly places (was), and they kept those places all the day and night. [And taking their arms of battle, set by the places that led (to) the path of straightway between the hilly places, and they were keeping them all day and night.]

Certainly Holofernes, the while he went about by compass, found that the well, that flowed into the water conduit of (the) men of Israel, was (ad)dressed (or directed) at the south part without the city, and he commanded their water conduit to be cut asunder [or to be hewn down].

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