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to come to us; for it is shameful for us, if we should let such a woman pass without having spoken with her." And Bagoas said to Judith, "Come to my lord to be honored in his presence, and drink wine with us, and you shall become as one of the women who stand in the house of Nebuchadnezzar." And Judith, having adorned herself, went away, and having entered to Holofernes, she reclined, and ate and drank what her maid had prepared for her. And the heart of Holofernes was ecstatic and he was inflamed with desire for the woman. And when the drinking was prolonged, he drank very much wine and became drunk. And he lay on his bed with a heavy head from drunkenness, and all had gone, and Bagoas shut the tent, having left Judith alone inside. And she commanded her maid to watch for her exit; for she would go out to pray. Holofernes, therefore, being overwhelmed with drunkenness, lay there and was sleeping a sleep brother to death, but she, having called upon God and having drawn his scimitar, cut off his head, and going out she gave it to her maid, and went away as if to pray, according to her custom. And having approached her city, she cried out to those at the gates to open for her. And having entered, she recounted what wonders God had worked through her, and she brought forth the head of Holofernes, and advised to hang it from the battlements, and for them, having put on their full armor, to go out at dawn; "For when the Assyrians see you," she said, "they will run to the tent of their own general, and finding him killed, they will be astounded, and fear will fall upon them, and they will be turned to flight, and you will follow after them and you will cut them down, and the plains will be filled with the dead." Having given this counsel to her fellow citizens, she said, "Call Achior for me;" and to him when he came she showed the head of Holofernes. And the man was astounded, and said, "Tell me what you have done." And she recounted in the presence of all what God had done through her, and how she had kept her chastity and widowhood undefiled. And Achior believed in God and was circumcised. And the rulers of the city and its populace have hung the head of Holofernes from the wall and have done the other things according to the counsel of Judith. And they cut down the Assyrians like grass, and having plundered their camp, they were filled with much spoil. And for Judith, the tent of Holofernes was set apart and all that was in it, which also, having gone to Jerusalem, she dedicated as a votive offering to God. And she sang a song to him, crowned with an olive branch, and all Israel, and she returned to her house, and grew old in chastity, and died, having lived one hundred and five years. So much for the story of Judith; next must be recounted briefly also the story of Tobit. Tobit, then, was descended from the tribe of Naphtali, and was taken captive in the days of Enemessar, king of the Assyrians. And he was pious toward God and just toward men, and while his fellow tribesmen sacrificed to Baal, he himself sacrificed to God, going to Jerusalem, and according to the ordinances of the law he regulated his life, and having been taken captive, he was not defiled by the foods of the Gentiles. And he became honored by Enemessar, and acquired much property, and of this he shared with those of his own kindred who were in need. And going to Media, he entrusted to one of the countrymen dwelling there, to Gamaliel, ten talents of silver. And taking a wife of his own people, Anna, he begat from her a son, Tobias. And when Enemessar died, and his son Sennacherib succeeded to the rule of the Assyrians, and campaigned against Judea and shamefully fled from there and returned to his own country, and in a rage on account of the defeat was killing very many of the Israelites, Tobit would bury them by night. And being discovered doing this and being sought, he fled, and all the things of his house were plundered. And not yet fifty days having passed, he indeed

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ἐλθεῖν πρὸς ἡμᾶς· αἰσχρὸν γὰρ ἡμῖν, εἰ γυναῖκα τοιαύτην παρήσομεν μὴ αὐτῇ ὁμιλήσαντες." καὶ ὁ Βαγώας ειπε πρὸς ̓Ιουδήθ "ἐλθὲ πρὸς τὸν κύριόν μου δοξασθῆναι κατὰ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ, καὶ πίεσαι μεθ' ἡμῶν οινον, καὶ γενηθήσῃ ὡς μία τῶν παρεστηκυιῶν ἐν τῷ οικῳ Ναβουχοδονόσορ." καὶ ̓Ιουδὴθ κοσμηθεῖσα ἀπῆλθε, καὶ εἰσελθοῦσα πρὸς ̓Ολοφέρνην ἀνέπεσε, καὶ εφαγε καὶ επιεν α ἡτοίμασεν αὐτῇ ἡ παιδίσκη αὐτῆς. ἡ δὲ καρδία ̓Ολοφέρνου ἐξέστη καὶ πρὸς ερωτα τῆς γυναικὸς ἐξεκέκαυτο. καὶ τοῦ πότου παραταθέντος επιεν ἐκεῖνος οινον σφόδρα πολὺν καὶ ἐμεθύσθη. καὶ ὁ μὲν ἐπὶ τῆς κλίνης αὐτοῦ καρηβαρῶν ἐκ τῆς μέθης κατέκειτο, πάντες δὲ ῳχοντο, καὶ Βαγώας συνέκλεισε τὴν σκηνήν, μόνην τὴν ̓Ιουδὴθ ἐντὸς καταλελοιπώς. ἡ δὲ τῇ θεραπαίνῃ αὐτῆς ἐνετείλατο τὴν εξοδον αὐτῆς ἐπιτηρεῖν· ἐξελεύσεσθαι γὰρ ἐπὶ τὴν προσευχήν. ὁ μὲν ουν ̓Ολοφέρνης τῇ μέθῃ καταβεβαπτισμένος κατέκειτο καὶ υπνον θανάτου υπνωττεν ἀδελφόν, ἡ δὲ τὸν θεὸν ἐπικαλεσαμένη καὶ τὸν ἀκινάκην αὐτοῦ σπασαμένη τὴν αὐτοῦ ἀπέτεμε κεφαλήν, καὶ ἐξελθοῦσα τῇ θεραπαίνῃ παρέσχεν αὐτήν, καὶ ἀπῄει ὡς δὴ προσευξομένη κατὰ τὸ σύνηθες. ἐγγίσασα δὲ τῇ πόλει αὐτῆς ἐβόησε τοῖς ἐπὶ τῶν πυλῶν ἀνοῖξαι αὐτῇ. καὶ εἰσελθοῦσα διηγήσατο οσα ἐθαυμάστωσεν δι' αὐτὴν ὁ θεός, καὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν ̓Ολοφέρνου προήγαγε, καὶ συνεβούλευσεν ἀπαιωρῆσαι ταύτην ἐκ τῶν ἐπάλξεων, αὐτοὺς δὲ τὰς πανοπλίας ἐνδυσαμένους αμα πρωὶ ἐξελθεῖν· "ἰδόντες γάρ" φησίν "ὑμᾶς οἱ ̓Ασσύριοι δραμοῦνται ἐπὶ τὴν τοῦ σφῶν ἀρχιστρατήγου σκη1.217 νήν, καὶ εὑρόντες αὐτὸν ἀνῃρημένον ἐκστήσονται, καὶ φόβος ἐπιπεσεῖται αὐτοῖς, καὶ τραπήσονται εἰς φυγήν, καὶ ὑμεῖς εψεσθε ὀπίσω αὐτῶν καὶ συγκόψετε αὐτούς, καὶ πληρωθήσεται τὰ πεδία νεκρῶν." ταῦτα τοῖς πολίταις αὐτῆς συμβουλεύσασα "καλέσατέ μοι" εφη "τὸν ̓Αχιώρ·" καὶ ἐλθόντι τὴν κεφαλὴν τοῦ ̓Ολοφέρνου ὑπέδειξε. καὶ ἐξέστη ὁ ανθρωπος, καί "ἀνάγγειλόν μοι" εφη "οσα ἐποίησας." κἀκείνη πάντων ἐνώπιον διηγήσατο α ὁ θεὸς πεποίηκε δι' αὐτῆς, καὶ ὡς ἀμίαντον τὴν αὐτῆς σωφροσύνην καὶ χηρείαν ἐτήρησε. καὶ ὁ ̓Αχιὼρ ἐπίστευσε τῷ θεῷ καὶ περιετμήθη. οἱ δὲ τῆς πόλεως αρχοντες καὶ τὸ πλῆθος αὐτῆς καὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν ̓Ολοφέρνου τοῦ τείχους ἀπῃωρήκασι καὶ ταλλα κατὰ τὴν συμβουλὴν ̓Ιουδὴθ πεποιήκασι. καὶ τοὺς ̓Ασσυρίους ὡς χόρτον συνέκοψαν, καὶ τὴν παρεμβολὴν αὐτῶν διαρπάσαντες λαφύρων πολλῶν ἐνεπλήσθησαν. τῇ δὲ ̓Ιουδὴθ ἡ σκηνὴ ̓Ολοφέρνου ἐξῄρητο καὶ πάντα τὰ ἐν αὐτῇ, α καὶ ἀνάθημα τῷ θεῷ ἐν ̔Ιερουσαλὴμ ἀπελθοῦσα ἀνέθετο. καὶ ῃσεν ᾠδὴν αὐτῷ ἐστεφανωμένη ἐλαίας θαλλῷ, καὶ πᾶς ̓Ισραήλ, καὶ ὑπέστρεψεν εἰς τὸν οικον αὐτῆς, καὶ κατεγήρασεν ἐν σωφροσύνῃ, καὶ τέθνηκε ζήσασα ετη πέντε καὶ ἑκατόν. Τὰ μὲν ουν κατὰ τὴν ̓Ιουδὴθ ἐν τούτοις· ἑξῆς δ' ἱστορητέον ἐπιτετμημένως καὶ τὰ κατὰ τὸν Τωβίτ. Τωβὶτ τοίνυν ἐκ τῆς φυλῆς μὲν κατήγετο Νεφθαλείμ, ᾐχμαλώτιστο δὲ ἐν ἡμέραις ̓Ενεμεσὰρ βασιλέως τῶν ̓Ασσυρίων. ην δὲ τὰ πρὸς θεὸν εὐσεβὴς καὶ τὰ πρὸς ἀνθρώπους δίκαιος, καὶ τῶν συμφυλετῶν αὐτοῦ θυόντων τῇ Βάαλ αὐτὸς εθυε τῷ θεῷ πορευό1.218 μενος εἰς ̔Ιερουσαλήμ, καὶ κατὰ τὰς τοῦ νόμου διαταγὰς τὴν ζωὴν ἐρρύθμιζεν ἑαυτοῦ, καὶ αἰχμαλωτισθεὶς οὐκ ἐχράνθη βρώμασιν ἐθνικοῖς. γέγονε δὲ τῷ ̓Ενεμεσὰρ εντιμος, καὶ ἐκτήσατο περιουσίαν πολλήν, καὶ ταύτης μετεδίδου τῶν οἰκείων τοῦ γένους τοῖς χρῄζουσι. πορευόμενος δὲ εἰς Μηδίαν παρέθετο ἑνὶ τῶν ἐκεῖ κατοικούντων ὁμοεθνῶν τῷ Γαμαὴλ ἀργυρίου δέκα τάλαντα. καὶ λαβὼν γυναῖκα τῶν ὁμοφύλων Ανναν, υἱὸν ἐξ αὐτῆς Τωβίαν ἐγείνατο. ̓Ενεμεσὰρ δὲ θανόντος, καὶ τοῦ υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ Σεναχηρεὶμ τὴν ἀρχὴν διαδεξαμένου τῶν ̓Ασσυρίων, καὶ κατὰ τῆς ̓Ιουδαίας στρατεύσαντος καὶ αἰσχρῶς φυγόντος ἐκεῖθεν ἐπανελθόντος τε εἰς τὰ οἰκεῖα, καὶ θυμῷ διὰ τὴν ητταν ἀποκτιννύντος πλείστους τῶν ̓Ισραηλιτῶν, εθαπτεν αὐτοὺς νυκτὸς ὁ Τωβίτ. γνωσθεὶς δὲ τοῦτο ποιῶν καὶ ζητούμενος εφυγε, καὶ τὰ τῆς οἰκίας αὐτοῦ διήρπαστο ξύμπαντα. ουπω δὲ πεντήκοντα παρελθουσῶν ἡμερῶν ὁ μὲν