Judith 12:6
Good News Translation
and sent a message to Holofernes requesting permission to go out into the valley to pray.

New Revised Standard Version
and sent this message to Holofernes: “Let my lord now give orders to allow your servant to go out and pray.”

Contemporary English Version
and sent a message to Holofernes, asking if she could go into the valley to pray.

New American Bible
and sent this message to Holofernes, “Give orders, my lord, to let your servant go out for prayer.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he commanded his chamberlains, that she might go out and in, to adore her God as she pleased, for three days.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he commanded his chamberlains, that she might go out and in, to adore her God as she pleased, for three days.

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.

Judith 12:5
And when she was going in, she desired that she might have liberty to go out at night and before day to prayer, and to beseech the Lord.

Judith 12:7
And she went out in the nights into the valley of Bethulia, and washed herself in a fountain of water.

Judith 12:8
And as she came up, she prayed to the Lord the God of Israel, that he would direct her way to the deliverance of his people.

Context
Judith 12
5And when she was going in, she desired that she might have liberty to go out at night and before day to prayer, and to beseech the Lord. 6And he commanded his chamberlains, that she might go out and in, to adore her God as she pleased, for three days. 7And she went out in the nights into the valley of Bethulia, and washed herself in a fountain of water.…
Cross References
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.

Judith 12:5
And when she was going in, she desired that she might have liberty to go out at night and before day to prayer, and to beseech the Lord.

Judith 12:7
And she went out in the nights into the valley of Bethulia, and washed herself in a fountain of water.

Judith 12:8
And as she came up, she prayed to the Lord the God of Israel, that he would direct her way to the deliverance of his people.



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Judith 12:5
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