Judith 5:5
Good News Translation
Then Achior, the leader of all the Ammonites, answered Holofernes, "Sir, if you will please be so kind as to listen to me, I will tell you the truth about these people who live in the mountains near your camp. I will not lie to you.

New Revised Standard Version
Then Achior, the leader of all the Ammonites, said to him, “May my lord please listen to a report from the mouth of your servant, and I will tell you the truth about this people that lives in the mountain district near you. No falsehood shall come from your servant’s mouth.

Contemporary English Version
Achior the Ammonite leader answered: Sir, I am your loyal servant. Please listen as I tell you about the people who live up in the hill country near your army camp. I will be completely honest.

New American Bible
Why have they alone of all the inhabitants of the west refused to come out to meet me?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then Achior captain of all the children of Ammon answering, said; If thou vouchsafe, my lord, to hear, I will tell the truth in thy sight concerning this people, that dwelleth in the mountains, and there shall not a false word come out of my mouth.

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Then Achior captain of all the children of Ammon answering, said; If thou vouchsafe, my lord, to hear, I will tell the truth in thy sight concerning this people, that dwelleth in the mountains, and there shall not a false word come out of my mouth.

Judith 5:3
And he said to them: Tell me what is this people that besetteth the mountains: or what are their cities, and of what sort, and how great: also what is their power, or what is their multitude: or who is the king over their warfare:

Judith 5:4
And why they above all that dwell in the east, have despised us, and have not come out to meet us, that they might receive us with peace?

Judith 5:6
This people is of the offspring of the Chaldeans.

Judith 5:7
They dwelt first in Mesopotamia, because they would not follow the gods of their fathers, who were in the land of the Chaldeans.

Context
Judith 5
4And why they above all that dwell in the east, have despised us, and have not come out to meet us, that they might receive us with peace? 5Then Achior captain of all the children of Ammon answering, said; If thou vouchsafe, my lord, to hear, I will tell the truth in thy sight concerning this people, that dwelleth in the mountains, and there shall not a false word come out of my mouth. 6This people is of the offspring of the Chaldeans.…
Cross References
Judith 5:3
And he said to them: Tell me what is this people that besetteth the mountains: or what are their cities, and of what sort, and how great: also what is their power, or what is their multitude: or who is the king over their warfare:

Judith 5:4
And why they above all that dwell in the east, have despised us, and have not come out to meet us, that they might receive us with peace?

Judith 5:6
This people is of the offspring of the Chaldeans.

Judith 5:7
They dwelt first in Mesopotamia, because they would not follow the gods of their fathers, who were in the land of the Chaldeans.



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