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Jdt 16:29

How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Jdt 16:29 · Douay-Rheims
“And all the people mourned for seven days.”
Post-Reformation c. 1650 – 1900
1849
A.D.
George Leo Haydock Catholic
1774–1849
“Seven days. The usual term; (Ecclesiasticus xxii. 13.) but it was extra ordinary for the whole province (Calmet) to mourn for an individual. Greek and Syriac add, “And she divided all her possessions, before her death, among the nearest relations of her husband, Manasses, and among her own,” (Haydock) which was very equitable, as she had no children, (Calmet) we may suppose. (Tirinus) (Haydock)”
Source
Modern · 1953 →

The in-app commentary runs from the Fathers to the early-modern record, then stops — that's where the public-domain sources end, not where the reading does. For the modern reading, follow the sources directly.