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.
"their feet are swift to shed blood;
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;
In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea,
And she, being instructed before by her mother, said, Give me John the Baptist's head here on a platter.
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.