Holofernes offers Judith refreshment, which she refuses. She’s not going to eat anything that isn’t kosher, and says she’s brought enough food with her. “I have more than enough food to last until the Lord has used me to carry out his plan,” she tells him.
Judith waits demurely for three days, and Holofernes’ desire gets the better of him. He summons her to a banquet, gets drunk, and can’t wait to make love to her.
Judith calmly stays in control of herself, she has kept herself ritually pure each day, even now she only pretends to eat the foreign food, and she sits on lambskins her maidservant has brought. She may be with Gentiles, but she doesn’t allow them to defile her.
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