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9v 5Then she returned purified and stayed in the tent until she ate her food toward evening.
Judith Attends Holofernes’s Banquet10 Jdt 6.21; 8.15, 33 On the fourth day Holofernes held a banquet for his slaves only and did not invite any of his officers.
11v 5He said to Bagoas, the eunuch who had charge of his personal affairs, “Go and persuade the Hebrew woman who is in your care to join us and to eat and drink with us.
12For it would be a disgrace if we let such a woman go without being intimate with her. If we do not seduce her, she will laugh at us.”
13 Jdt 13.1 So Bagoas left the presence of Holofernes and approached her and said, “Let this pretty servant not hesitate to come to my lord to be honored in his presence and to enjoy drinking wine with us and to become today like one of the Assyrian women who serve in the palace of Nebuchadnezzar.”
14Judith replied, “Who am I to refuse my lord? Whatever pleases him I will do at once, and it will be a joy to me until the day of my death.”
15So she proceeded to dress herself in all her woman’s finery. Her maid went ahead and spread for her on the ground before Holofernes the lambskins she had received from Bagoas for her daily use in reclining.
16 Sir 9.8; Mt 5.28 Then Judith came in and lay down. Holofernes’s heart was ravished with her and his passion was aroused, for he had been waiting for an opportunity to be with her from the day he first saw her.
17So Holofernes said to her, “Have a drink and be merry with us!”
18Judith said, “I will gladly drink, my lord, because today is the greatest day in my whole life.”
19vv 2, 9Then she took what her maid had prepared and ate and drank before him.
20Jdt 13.2Holofernes was greatly pleased with her and drank a great quantity of wine, much more than he had ever drunk in any one day since he was born.
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