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'May your soul live, my lord,' Judith answered, 'the Lord will have used me to accomplish his plan, before your servant has finished these provisions.' (Judith 12, 4)
Holofernes' adjutants then took her to a tent where she slept until midnight. A little before the morning watch, she got up. (Judith 12, 5)
She had already sent this request to Holofernes, 'Let my lord kindly give orders for your servant to be allowed to go out and pray,' (Judith 12, 6)
and Holofernes had ordered his guards not to prevent her. She stayed in the camp for three days; she went out each night to the valley of Bethulia and washed at the spring where the picket had been posted. (Judith 12, 7)
As she went she prayed to the Lord God of Israel to guide her in her plan to relieve the children of her people. (Judith 12, 8)
Bagoas then left Holofernes and went to see Judith. 'Would this young and lovely woman condescend to come to my lord?' he asked. 'She will occupy the seat of honour opposite him, drink the joyful wine with us and be treated today like one of the Assyrian ladies who stand in the palace of Nebuchadnezzar.' (Judith 12, 13)
'Who am I', Judith replied, 'to resist my lord? I shall not hesitate to do whatever he wishes, and doing this will be my joy to my dying day.' (Judith 12, 14)
So she got up and put on her dress and all her feminine adornments. Her maid preceded her, and on the floor in front of Holofernes spread the fleece which Bagoas had given Judith for her daily use to lie on as she ate. (Judith 12, 15)
Judith came in and took her place. The heart of Holofernes was ravished at the sight; his very soul was stirred. He was seized with a violent desire to sleep with her; and indeed since the first day he saw her, he had been waiting for an opportunity to seduce her. (Judith 12, 16)
'I am delighted to do so, my lord, for since my birth I have never felt my life more worthwhile than today.' (Judith 12, 18)
Holofernes was so enchanted with her that he drank far more wine than he had drunk on any other day in his life. (Judith 12, 20)
It grew late and his staff hurried away. Bagoas closed the tent from the outside, having shown out those who still lingered in his lord's presence. They went to their beds wearied with too much drinking, (Judith 13, 1)
