and gave the head of Holofernes to her maid. And she put it in her bag of meat,
so these two went together, according to their custom, to prayer; and when they passed the camp, they circled the valley and went up the mountain of Bethulia and came to its gates.
Then Judith said, from far off to the watchmen at the gate,
"Open, open the gate now! God, our God, is with us to show his power yet in Jerusalem and his forces against the enemy, as he has truly done on this day!"
Now when the men of her city heard her voice, they hurried down to the gate of their city and they called the elders of the city.