Judith 8:5
Good News Translation
In her grief she built a little shelter on the roof of her house and lived there, wearing sackcloth.

New Revised Standard Version
at home where she set up a tent for herself on the roof of her house. She put sackcloth around her waist and dressed in widow’s clothing.

Contemporary English Version
and she had moved into a small shelter she had made on the roof of her house. She wore widow's clothes and wrapped pieces of sackcloth around her waist.

New American Bible
She set up a tent for herself on the roof of her house, put sackcloth about her waist, and wore widow’s clothing.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And she made herself a private chamber in the upper part of her house, in which she abode shut up with her maids.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And she made herself a private chamber in the upper part of her house, in which she abode shut up with her maids.

Judith 8:3
For he was standing over them that bound sheaves in the field; and the heat came upon his head, and he died in Bethulia his own city, and was buried there with his fathers.

Judith 8:4
And Judith his relict was a widow now three years and six months.

Judith 8:6
And she wore haircloth upon her loins, and fasted all the days of her life, except the sabbaths, and new moons, and the feasts of the house of Israel.

Judith 8:7
And she was exceedingly beautiful, and her husband left her great riches, and very many servants, and large possessions of herds of oxen, and flocks of sheep.

Context
Judith 8
4And Judith his relict was a widow now three years and six months. 5And she made herself a private chamber in the upper part of her house, in which she abode shut up with her maids. 6And she wore haircloth upon her loins, and fasted all the days of her life, except the sabbaths, and new moons, and the feasts of the house of Israel.…
Cross References
Judith 8:3
For he was standing over them that bound sheaves in the field; and the heat came upon his head, and he died in Bethulia his own city, and was buried there with his fathers.

Judith 8:4
And Judith his relict was a widow now three years and six months.

Judith 8:6
And she wore haircloth upon her loins, and fasted all the days of her life, except the sabbaths, and new moons, and the feasts of the house of Israel.

Judith 8:7
And she was exceedingly beautiful, and her husband left her great riches, and very many servants, and large possessions of herds of oxen, and flocks of sheep.



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