1   Iudith saide vnto al the people, Brethren heare me: ^note Sticke vp this head vpon our walles,

2   And when the sunne aryseth, take euery man his weapon, and fall out violently: not as though ye would go beside them, but to runne vpon them with violence.

3   When the spies see this, they shall of necessitie be compelled to flee backward, and to rayse vp their captayne to the battaile.

4   So when their captaynes come into Holophernes pauilion, and finde the dead body wrapped in the blood, fearefulnesse shall fall vpon them:

5   And when ye perceaue that they flee, folowe them without all care, for God shall ^note delyuer them vnto you to be destroyed.

6   Then Achior seing the power of God which he had shewed vnto the people of Israel, fell of from his heathenishe beliefe, and put his trust in God, and let him selfe be circumcized, and so was he numbred among the people of Israel, he and all his posteritie vnto this day. B   

7   Now assoone as it was day, they stickt vp Holophernes head vpon the walles, and euery man tooke his weapon, and so they went out with an horrible crye.

8   When the spies saw that, they ranne vnto Holophernes tent.

9   And they that were within the tent, came before his chamber and made a great russhing by art, that Holophernes might awake, not by stirring him vp, but by their noyse.

10   For there durst not one of the Assyrians knocke, go in, or open.

11   But when the captaynes and princes and all the chiefe in the king of the Assyrians hoast came together, they said vnto the chamberlaynes:

12   Go your way in, and wake him vp: for the myce are crept out of their holes, and dare prouoke vs vnto battayle. C   

13   Then went Uagao into his chamber, stoode before the ^note bed, and clapped with his handes: for he thought he had ben sleeping with Iudith.

14   But when he hearkened perfectly with his eares, and coulde perceaue no stirring, he went nyer to the ^note bed and lift it vp, and when he sawe the dead body of Holophernes lying there without a head weltred in his blood vpon the earth, he cryed with a loude voyce, and with weeping rent his clothes,

15   And went into Iudiths tent, and founde her not.

16   And so he lept out vnto the people, and saide: One woman of the Iewes, hath brought al Nabuchodonosors people to shame: For lo, Holophernes lyeth vpon the grounde and hath no head.

17   When the chiefe of the Assyrians hoast heard that, they rent their clothes, and there fell an intollerable feare and tremblyng vpon them: so that their mindes were sore afrayd.

18   And there was an exceeding great crye in ^note the whole hoast.

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