1 Then Judith said to them, “My friends, please follow my advice. In the morning, take this head and hang it on the town wall.
2 Appoint a leader for yourselves, and at sunrise get all your able-bodied men to take their weapons and march out of the town with him, as if they were going down into the valley to attack the Assyrian outpost.
3 The Assyrian guards will grab their weapons and rush back to camp to wake up their officers. The officers will run to Holofernes' tent but will not find him, and the whole army will be terrified and retreat as you advance against them.
4 Then you and all the other Israelites will be able to follow them and kill them as they retreat.