She and the women with her crowned themselves with olive, and she walked out ahead of the whole people, leading all the women in the dance, and every man of Israel followed under arms, garlanded, with hymns in their mouths.
In context
11The whole people stripped the camp for thirty days. They gave Judith the tent of Holofernes and all his silver plate, the couches, the basins, and every one of his furnishings. She took them, loaded them on her mule, harnessed her carts, and heaped the goods onto them. 12Every woman of Israel came running to see her. They blessed her and set up a dance among themselves in her honor, and she took thyrsus wands into her hands and handed them to the women with her. 13She and the women with her crowned themselves with olive, and she walked out ahead of the whole people, leading all the women in the dance, and every man of Israel followed under arms, garlanded, with hymns in their mouths. 14And Judith led off this thanksgiving before all Israel, and the whole people sang this praise back.
