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Judith 7:26-28
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Judith 7:26-28
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
26 Now summon them and surrender the whole town as plunder to the army of Holofernes and to all his forces.(A) 27 For it would be better for us to be captured by them.[a] We shall indeed become slaves, but our lives will be spared, and we shall not witness our little ones dying before our eyes and our wives and children drawing their last breath. 28 We call to witness against you heaven and earth and our God, the Lord of our ancestors, who punishes us for our sins and the sins of our ancestors; do today the things that we have described!”(B)
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- 7.27 Other ancient authorities add than to die of thirst
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