Judith 14:12 CPDV

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.'

¹³  Then Vagao, entering his bedchamber, stood before the curtain, and he made a clapping noise with his hands. For he suspected that he was sleeping with Judith.

¹⁴  But when, with attentiveness, he perceived no motion of anyone reclining, he approached the curtain. And lifting it up, he saw the dead body of Holofernes, without a head, lying on the ground, soaked in his own blood. He cried out with a loud voice and weeping, and he tore his garments.