21 After the victory celebration, everyone went back home, and Judith returned to her place in Bethulia. She was famous everywhere in Israel for as long as she lived.
22 Although a lot of men asked to marry her, she always refused and never remarried after her husband Manasseh died.
23-24 Judith became more famous as time went by, and she continued to live in the house Manasseh had left her.Some time before Judith died, she divided her possessions and property among her own closest relatives, as well as those of her husband, and she allowed her servant woman to go free.Judith died in Bethulia at the age of 105. She was buried beside her husband in their family tomb, and everyone in Israel mourned her death for seven days.
25 As long as Judith was alive, and for many years after her death, no enemy nation terrorized the people of Israel.