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So pray for us, since you are a devout woman, and the Lord will send us rain to fill our cisterns and we will no longer be faint." (Judith 8, 31)
Judith said to them, "Listen to me. I am about to do a thing which will go down through all generations of our descendants. (Judith 8, 32)
Therefore, my lord and master, do not disregard what he said, but keep it in your mind, for it is true: our nation cannot be punished, nor can the sword prevail against them, unless they sin against their God. (Judith 11, 10)
Since their food supply is exhausted and their water has almost given out, they have planned to kill their cattle and have determined to use all that God by his laws has forbidden them to eat. (Judith 11, 12)
They have decided to consume the first fruits of the grain and the tithes of the wine and oil, which they had consecrated and set aside for the priests who minister in the presence of our God at Jerusalem -- although it is not lawful for any of the people so much as to touch these things with their hands. (Judith 11, 13)
When evening came, his slaves quickly withdrew, and Bagoas closed the tent from outside and shut out the attendants from his master's presence; and they went to bed, for they all were weary because the banquet had lasted long. (Judith 13, 1)
Then Judith said to them, "Listen to me, my brethren, and take this head and hang it upon the parapet of your wall. (Judith 14, 1)
So they came to Holofernes' tent and said to the steward in charge of all his personal affairs, "Wake up our lord, for the slaves have been so bold as to come down against us to give battle, in order to be destroyed completely." (Judith 14, 13)
He boasted that he would burn up my territory, and kill my young men with the sword, and dash my infants to the ground and seize my children as prey, and take my virgins as booty. (Judith 16, 5)
For she took off her widow's mourning to exalt the oppressed in Israel. She anointed her face with ointment and fastened her hair with a tiara and put on a linen gown to deceive him. (Judith 16, 8)
And let the maiden who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti." This pleased the king, and he did so. (Esther 2, 4)
the king loved Esther more than all the women, and she found grace and favor in his sight more than all the virgins, so that he set the royal crown on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti. (Esther 2, 17)
