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she rose from where she lay prostrate and called her maid and went down into the house where she lived on sabbaths and on her feast days; and she removed the sackcloth which she had been wearing, and took off her widow’s garments, and bathed her body with water, and anointed herself with precious ointment, and combed her hair and put on a tiara, and arrayed herself in her gayest apparel, which she used to wear while her husband Manas′seh was living. And she put sandals on her feet, and put on her anklets and bracelets and rings, and her earrings and all her ornaments,[a] and made herself very beautiful, to entice the eyes of all men who might see her.

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Footnotes

  1. 10.4 The remainder of this verse reads in the Vulgate (verse 4): “And the Lord also gave her more beauty: because all this dressing-up did not proceed from sensuality, but from virtue: and therefore the Lord increased this her beauty, so that she appeared to all men’s eyes incomparably lovely.”

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