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full of good counsel to the last; how she was to give father-in-law and mother-in-law their due, love her husband, be mistress in her own house, order it well, and prove herself the perfection of a woman. (Tobit 10, 13)
She was a woman very fair to see, and her husband had left her great wealth, a full household, and lands well stocked with cattle and sheep; (Judith 8, 7)
a woman of high repute everywhere, and the Lord’s devout worshipper; no man had a word to say in her dispraise. (Judith 8, 8)
Pray for us, holy woman as thou art, and the Lord’s true worshipper. (Judith 8, 29)
Let him fall by a woman’s hand, and all the glory of it will be ascribed to thy name. (Judith 9, 15)
The Lord himself lent grace to her mien; manly resolve, not woman’s wantonness, was the occasion of her finery, and he would enhance her beauty till all beholders should vow there was never woman so fair. (Judith 10, 4)
Never was a woman such as this, so fair to look upon, so wise to listen to. (Judith 11, 19)
On the fourth day, Holofernes made a banquet for his own attendants, and sent his chamberlain Vagoa with an invitation to her. Prevail if thou canst, said he, on this Hebrew woman to grant me, of her own free will, her favours. (Judith 12, 10)
(Great shame the Assyrians hold it in a man, if any woman fools him, and contrives to escape from his company unmolested.) (Judith 12, 11)
With that, she took Holofernes’ head out of the wallet where it lay hidden. Look upon this head, she cried, and know that the Assyrian army has lost its general. Look upon this, the canopy he lay under, in drunken sleep, when the Lord our God smote him, and by the hand of a woman. (Judith 13, 19)
And Ozias, that was the Israelites’ commander, said to her, Blessing be thine, my daughter, from the Lord God, the most high, such as no other woman on earth can claim! (Judith 13, 23)
Here is great despite done, he cried, to the court of king Nabuchodonosor, and one Jewish woman its author! Holofernes lies there felled to the earth, and no head on his body! (Judith 14, 16)
