8 When the scouts saw this, they rushed to the tent of Holofernes.
9 Moreover, those who were in the tent came and made a loud noise before the entrance to the bedchamber, hoping to awaken him by an attempt at skillful noise-making, not by intruding on him, so that Holofernes might be roused from sleep.
10 For no one dared to knock, or to open and enter, the bedchamber of the powerful leader of the Assyrians.
11 But when his commanders and tribunes had arrived, with all the chiefs of the army of the king of the Assyrians, they said to the chamberlains:
12 'Enter and awaken him, for the mice have come out of their holes, intending to challenge us to fight.'
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