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Judith 15:10-12
New American Bible (Revised Edition)

10 By your own hand you have done all this.
    You have done good things for Israel,
    and God is pleased with them.
May the Almighty Lord bless you forever!”

And all the people said, “Amen!”

11 For thirty days[a] all the people plundered the camp, giving Judith the tent of Holofernes, with all his silver, his beds, his dishes, and all his furniture. She took them and loaded her mule, hitched her carts, and loaded these things on them.

12 All the women of Israel gathered to see her, and they blessed her and performed a dance in her honor.(A) She took branches in her hands and distributed them to the women around her,

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Footnotes

  1. 15:11 Thirty days: the central actions in each half of the book are accomplished in a total of thirty-four days. Bethulia was without water for thirty-four days (7:20). Judith spent four days in the enemy camp and the Israelites plunder the Assyrian camp for thirty days.
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