For now is the time to help your inheritance and to execute your purposes for the destruction of the enemies who have risen against us."
Then she went to the pillar of the bed, which was at Holofernes' head, and took down his broadsword from there.
And she approached his bed, and took hold of the hair of his head, and said, "Strengthen me, O Lord God of Israel, this day."
And she twice struck his neck with all her might, and she took his head away from him. And she tumbled his body down from the bed, and pulled down the canopy from the pillars; and, soon after, she went out