So Bagoas left Holofernes’ presence, went in to her, and said: “Do not let this beautiful young woman hesitate to come to my lord, to be honored before his face, to drink wine with us in good cheer, and to become this day like a daughter among the sons of Asshur who stand in Nebuchadnezzar’s house.”
In context
11He said to the eunuch Bagoas, who had charge of everything he owned: “Go and persuade the Hebrew woman who is in your keeping to come to us, to eat and to drink with us. 12Look, it is a disgrace to our face if we let a woman like that go without ever being intimate with her. If we do not draw her in, she will laugh at us.” 13So Bagoas left Holofernes’ presence, went in to her, and said: “Do not let this beautiful young woman hesitate to come to my lord, to be honored before his face, to drink wine with us in good cheer, and to become this day like a daughter among the sons of Asshur who stand in Nebuchadnezzar’s house.” 14Judith said to him: “And who am I, to contradict my lord? Whatever is pleasing in his eyes I will hurry to do, and it will be my joy until the day of my death.” 15She got up and arrayed herself in her clothing and all her woman’s ornament, and her slave went ahead and spread on the ground for her, facing Holofernes, the soft fleeces she had gotten from Bagoas for her daily use, so that she could recline on them to eat.
