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25 Sisera asked for water.
    She gave him milk.
    She offered him buttermilk in a royal bowl.
26 She reached for a tent peg with one hand,
    for a workman’s hammer with the other.
    She struck Sisera.
        She crushed his head.
            She shattered and pierced his temples.
27 He sank.
    He fell.
        He lay between her feet!
He sank.
    He fell between her feet.
        Where he sank, he fell dead.

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25 He asked for water, and she gave him milk;(A)
    in a bowl fit for nobles she brought him curdled milk.
26 Her hand reached for the tent peg,
    her right hand for the workman’s hammer.
She struck Sisera, she crushed his head,
    she shattered and pierced his temple.(B)
27 At her feet he sank,
    he fell; there he lay.
At her feet he sank, he fell;
    where he sank, there he fell—dead(C).

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