So they commanded the young men to open it for her, as she had said. And when they had done so,
Judith went out, she and her maid with her; and the men of the city looked after her, until she had gone down the mountain and had passed the valley and they could see her no more.
Thus they went straight ahead in the valley, and the first watch of the Assyrians met her and captured her; and they asked her, "Of what people are you? And where have you come from? And where are you going?"
And she said, "I am a woman of the Hebrews, and I have fled from them, for they will be given over to you to be consumed.