OLD TESTAMENT

Judith 13:10

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and she put it in her bag of food. They both went out together to prayer, according to their custom. They passed through the camp, circled around that valley, and went up to the mountain of Bethulia, and came to its gates.

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Verse 10. Canopy, to convince all that it was the head of Holofernes. Menochius.—Body, on the ground; (Calmet. 14:14) perhaps to cut off the head more easily, ( Calmet.) and that it might appear more ghastly Bible. at the first entrance. Tirinus.

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