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12 And she answered, I am a daughter of (the) Hebrews, and therefore I have fled from the face of them, for I know, that it shall come, that they shall be given to you into prey, for they have despised you, and for they would not betake themselves willfully (or willingly) to you, (so) that they should have found grace in your sight.

13 And for this cause I thought within me, and I said, I shall go to the face, or the presence, of the prince Holofernes, for to show to him the privates (or the secrets) of the men of Israel, and I shall show to him, by what entry he may get them, so that not one man of his host fall down [or so that there fall not one man of his host].

14 And when those men had heard the words of her, they beheld her face, and wondering was in their eyes, for they wondered greatly on her fairness. [And when those men had heard her words, they beheld her face, and she was in their eyes astoning (or astonishing), for they marvelled full much (at) the fairness of her.]

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