Judith 16:28
And she abode in her husband's house a hundred and five years, and made her handmaid free, and she died, and was buried with her husband in Bethulia.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Mansit autem in domo viri sui annos centum quinque, et dimisit abram suam liberam : et defuncta est ac sepulta cum viro suo in Bethulia.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Judith 16:23
- καὶ ἦν προβαίνουσα μεγάλη σφόδρα, καὶ ἐγήρασεν ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ τοῦ ἀνδρὸς αὐτῆς ἔτη ἑκατὸν πέντε, καὶ ἀφῆκεν τὴν ἅβραν αὐτῆς ἐλευθέραν. καὶ ἀπέθανεν εἰς Βαιτυλουά, καὶ ἔθαψαν αὐτὴν ἐν τῷ σπηλαίῳ τοῦ ἀνδρὸς αὐτῆς Μανασσῆ.
Haydock's commentary
Five. Suidas alone reads, "fifty." Some would suppose that Judith lived 105 years after her husband's death; so that she might have been in all 125 years old. But she would thus have survived the siege of Jerusalem under Nabuchodonosor; (Calmet) and the text does not require this sense. (Haydock) See Exodus xii. 40. (Tirinus)
Free; as she had been her assistant in such a glorious work. (Menochius)
Died. Greek adds, "in Bethulia; and they buried her in the cave of her husband, Manasses." See chap. viii. 3.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.