Translation:Judith

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Chapter 1

I. The campaign of Holofernes

Nabouchodonosor and Arphaxad
1 It was the twelfth year of the reign of Nabouchodonosor, who ruled over the Assyrians from Nineue, the great city. It was in the days of Arphaxad, who ruled over the Medes from Ecbatana; 2and who had built walls around Ecbatana, using hewn stones three cubits wide and six cubits long. And built wall seventy cubits high and fifty cubits wide. 3At the gates of the city, he made towers a hundred cubits high, standing on foundation sixty cubits wide.

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