And immediately going in with haste to the king, she asked, saying, I desire that you give me at once the head of John the Baptist on a platter.
for their feet run to evil and make haste to shed blood.
And his offering was one silver dish, and its weight a hundred and thirty shekels; one silver basin of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a food offering;
And she, being instructed before by her mother, said, Give me John the Baptist's head here on a platter.
In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea,
And she went out and said to her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the Baptist.
And becoming deeply grieved, the king, because of his oath, and those reclining together, he did not wish to reject her.
"their feet are swift to shed blood;