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      "verse": 1,
      "text": "Now Arphaxad king of the Medes had brought many nations under his dominions, and he built a very strong city, which he called Ecbatana,",
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      "verse": 2,
      "text": "Of stones squared and hewed: he made the walls thereof seventy cubits broad, and thirty cubits high, and the towers thereof he made a hundred cubits high. But on the square of them, each side was extended the space of twenty feet.",
      "citation": "Judith 1:2 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 3,
      "text": "And he made the gates thereof according to the height of the towers:",
      "citation": "Judith 1:3 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 4,
      "text": "And he gloried as a mighty one in the force of his army and in the glory of his chariots.",
      "citation": "Judith 1:4 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 5,
      "text": "Now in the twelfth year of his reign, Nabuchodonosor king of the Assyrians, who reigned in Ninive the great city, fought against Arphaxad and overcame him,",
      "citation": "Judith 1:5 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 6,
      "text": "In the great plain which is called Ragua, about the Euphrates, and the Tigris, and the Jadason, in the plain of Erioch the king of the Elicians.",
      "citation": "Judith 1:6 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 7,
      "text": "Then was the kingdom of Nabuchodonosor exalted, and his heart was elevated: and he sent to all that dwelt in Cilicia and Damascus, and Libanus,",
      "citation": "Judith 1:7 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 8,
      "text": "And to the nations that are in Carmelus, and Cedar, and to the inhabitants of Galilee in the great plain of Asdrelon,",
      "citation": "Judith 1:8 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 9,
      "text": "And to all that were in Samaria, and beyond the river Jordan even to Jerusalem, and all the land of Jesse till you come to the borders of Ethiopia.",
      "citation": "Judith 1:9 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 10,
      "text": "To all these Nabuchodonosor king of the Assyrians, sent messengers:",
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      "verse": 11,
      "text": "But they all with one mind refused, and sent them back empty, and rejected them without honour.",
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      "verse": 12,
      "text": "Then king Nabuchodonosor being angry against all that land, swore by his throne and kingdom that he would revenge himself of all those countries.",
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