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15 Then she took the head out of the bag, showed it to them, and said: “Here is the head of Holofernes, the ranking general of the Assyrian forces, and here is the canopy under which he lay in his drunkenness. The Lord struck him down by the hand of a female![a]

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  1. 13:15 By the hand of a female: cf. 16:5 and note on 9:9–10.