Judith 12:2
Good News Translation
But Judith refused. "I cannot eat your food," she said, "for I would be breaking the laws of my God. I will eat only what I have brought with me."

New Revised Standard Version
But Judith said, “I cannot partake of them, or it will be an offense; but I will have enough with the things I brought with me.”

Contemporary English Version
But Judith said, "God's Law will not allow me to eat your food, so I brought enough of my own."

New American Bible
But Judith said, “I cannot eat any of them, because it would be a scandal. Besides, I will have enough with the things I brought with me.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Judith answered him and said: Now I cannot eat of these things which thou commandest to be given me, lest sin come upon me: but I will eat of the things which I have brought.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Judith answered him and said: Now I cannot eat of these things which thou commandest to be given me, lest sin come upon me: but I will eat of the things which I have brought.

Judith 11:21
And because thy promise is good, if thy God shall do this for me, he shall also be my God, and thou shalt be great in the house of Nabuchodonosor, and thy name shall be renowned through all the earth.

Judith 12:1
Then he ordered that she should go in where his treasures were laid up, and bade her tarry there, and he appointed what should be given her from his own table.

Judith 12:3
And Holofernes said to her: If these things which thou hast brought with thee fail thee, what shall we do for thee?

Judith 12:4
And Judith said: As thy soul liveth, my lord, thy handmaid shall not spend all these things till God do by my hand that which I have purposed. And his servants brought her into the tent which he had commanded.

Context
Judith 12
1Then he ordered that she should go in where his treasures were laid up, and bade her tarry there, and he appointed what should be given her from his own table. 2And Judith answered him and said: Now I cannot eat of these things which thou commandest to be given me, lest sin come upon me: but I will eat of the things which I have brought. 3And Holofernes said to her: If these things which thou hast brought with thee fail thee, what shall we do for thee?…
Cross References
Judith 11:21
And because thy promise is good, if thy God shall do this for me, he shall also be my God, and thou shalt be great in the house of Nabuchodonosor, and thy name shall be renowned through all the earth.

Judith 12:1
Then he ordered that she should go in where his treasures were laid up, and bade her tarry there, and he appointed what should be given her from his own table.

Judith 12:3
And Holofernes said to her: If these things which thou hast brought with thee fail thee, what shall we do for thee?

Judith 12:4
And Judith said: As thy soul liveth, my lord, thy handmaid shall not spend all these things till God do by my hand that which I have purposed. And his servants brought her into the tent which he had commanded.



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Judith 12:1
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