Judith 7:12
Good News Translation
Stay in your camp and keep your soldiers in their quarters. Just command your men to blockade the springs at the foot of the mountains,

New Revised Standard Version
Remain in your camp, and keep all the men in your forces with you; let your servants take possession of the spring of water that flows from the foot of the mountain,

Contemporary English Version
Instead, order your troops to stay in camp. And command the soldiers you posted at the springs to guard them carefully,

New American Bible
Stay in your camp, and spare every man of your force. Have some of your servants keep control of the spring of water that flows out at the base of the mountain,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then all the men and women, young men, and children, gathering themselves together to Ozias, all together with one voice,

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Then all the men and women, young men, and children, gathering themselves together to Ozias, all together with one voice,

Judith 7:10
And these words pleased Holofernes, and his officers, and he placed all round about a hundred men at every spring.

Judith 7:11
And when they had kept this watch for full twenty days, the cisterns, and the reserve of waters failed among all the inhabitants of Bethulia, so that there was not within the city, enough to satisfy them, no not for one day, for water was daily given out to the people by measure.

Judith 7:13
Said: God be judge between us and thee, for thou hast done evil against us, in that thou wouldst not speak peaceably with the Assyrians, and for this cause God hath sold us into their hands.

Judith 7:14
And therefore there is no one to help us, while we are cast down before their eyes in thirst, and sad destruction.

Context
Judith 7
11And when they had kept this watch for full twenty days, the cisterns, and the reserve of waters failed among all the inhabitants of Bethulia, so that there was not within the city, enough to satisfy them, no not for one day, for water was daily given out to the people by measure. 12Then all the men and women, young men, and children, gathering themselves together to Ozias, all together with one voice, 13Said: God be judge between us and thee, for thou hast done evil against us, in that thou wouldst not speak peaceably with the Assyrians, and for this cause God hath sold us into their hands.…
Cross References
Judith 7:10
And these words pleased Holofernes, and his officers, and he placed all round about a hundred men at every spring.

Judith 7:11
And when they had kept this watch for full twenty days, the cisterns, and the reserve of waters failed among all the inhabitants of Bethulia, so that there was not within the city, enough to satisfy them, no not for one day, for water was daily given out to the people by measure.

Judith 7:13
Said: God be judge between us and thee, for thou hast done evil against us, in that thou wouldst not speak peaceably with the Assyrians, and for this cause God hath sold us into their hands.

Judith 7:14
And therefore there is no one to help us, while we are cast down before their eyes in thirst, and sad destruction.



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Judith 7:11
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