9. And they that were in the tent came, and made a noise before the door of the chamber to awake him, endeavoring by art to break his rest, that Holofernes might awake, not by their calling him, but by their noise.
10. For no man durst knock, or open and go into the chamber of the general of the Assyrians.
11. But when his captains and tribunes were come, and all the chiefs of the army of the king of the Assyrians, they said to the chamberlains
12. Go in, and awake him, for the mice coming out of their holes, have presumed to challenge us to fight.