Judith 11:14
Good News Translation
but since the people in Jerusalem have already broken this law, the people of our town have sent messengers to the Council there requesting permission to do the same.

New Revised Standard Version
Since even the people in Jerusalem have been doing this, they have sent messengers there in order to bring back permission from the council of the elders.

Contemporary English Version
but even the people of Jerusalem have already broken that law. So my own people in Bethulia have sent messengers to ask the religious leaders in Jerusalem if the same thing could be done here.

New American Bible
They have sent messengers to Jerusalem to bring back permission from the senate, for even there people have done these things.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For I thy handmaid worship God even now that I am with thee, and thy handmaid will go out, and I will pray to God,

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For I thy handmaid worship God even now that I am with thee, and thy handmaid will go out, and I will pray to God,

Judith 11:12
And the consecrated things of the Lord their God which God forbade them to touch, in corn, wine, and oil, these have they purposed to make use of, and they design to consume the things which they ought not to touch with their hands: therefore because they do these things, it is certain they will be given up to destruction.

Judith 11:13
And I thy handmaid knowing this, am fled from them, and the Lord hath sent me to tell thee these very things.

Judith 11:15
And he will tell me when he will repay them for their sins, and I will come and tell thee, so that I may bring thee through the midst of Jerusalem, and thou shalt have all the people of Israel, as sheep that have no shepherd, and there shall not so much as one dog bark against thee:

Judith 11:16
Because these things are told me by the providence of God.

Context
Judith 11
13And I thy handmaid knowing this, am fled from them, and the Lord hath sent me to tell thee these very things. 14For I thy handmaid worship God even now that I am with thee, and thy handmaid will go out, and I will pray to God, 15And he will tell me when he will repay them for their sins, and I will come and tell thee, so that I may bring thee through the midst of Jerusalem, and thou shalt have all the people of Israel, as sheep that have no shepherd, and there shall not so much as one dog bark against thee:…
Cross References
Judith 11:12
And the consecrated things of the Lord their God which God forbade them to touch, in corn, wine, and oil, these have they purposed to make use of, and they design to consume the things which they ought not to touch with their hands: therefore because they do these things, it is certain they will be given up to destruction.

Judith 11:13
And I thy handmaid knowing this, am fled from them, and the Lord hath sent me to tell thee these very things.

Judith 11:15
And he will tell me when he will repay them for their sins, and I will come and tell thee, so that I may bring thee through the midst of Jerusalem, and thou shalt have all the people of Israel, as sheep that have no shepherd, and there shall not so much as one dog bark against thee:

Judith 11:16
Because these things are told me by the providence of God.



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Judith 11:13
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