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Then Holofernes’ servants brought her into the tent, and she slept until midnight. Then she rose up toward the morning watch,
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Verse 5. And. Greek “and she sent to Holofernes, saying: May my lord please to order that thy handmaid may go out to pray. And,” and so forth verse 6. Bible.—She had prepared him to grant this request before: but out of civility, and that he may have greater confidence in her, she asks again. The choice of a retired place for prayer is very commendable, but she made choice of the fields, that she might go out of the camp afterwards without being suspected. Calmet.
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