1. Then he ordered her to enter where his valuables were stored, and he ordered her wait there, and he appointed what should be given to her from his own feast.
2. And Judith responded to him, and she said: "Now, I am not able to eat from these things which you instructed to be allotted to me, lest an offense come upon me. But I will eat from that which I have brought."
3. And Holofernes said to her, "If these things that you have brought with you should fail you, what shall we do for you?"
4. And Judith said, "As your soul lives, my lord, your maidservant will not expend all these things, until God accomplishes by my hand what I have in mind." And his servants led her into the tabernacle, as he instructed.
5. And, as she was entering, she requested that it be permitted to her to go outside at night, before daylight, in order to pray and to petition the Lord.
6. And he instructed his chamberlains that she may exit and enter, just as it may please her, to adore her God, for three days.
7. And she went out in the nights into the valley of Bethulia, and she washed herself in a fountain of water.
8. And, as she climbed up, she prayed to the Lord God of Israel that he would direct her way, to the liberation of his people.