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13:1. Now there was a man that dwelt in Babylon, and his name was
Joakim:
13:2. And he took a wife, whose name was Susanna, the daughter of
Helcias, a bery beautiful woman, and one that feared God.
13:3. For her parents being just, had instructed their daughter
according to the law of Moses.
13:4. Now Joakim was very rich, and had an orchard near his house: and
the Jews resorted to him, because he was the most honourable of them
all.
13:5. And there were two of the ancients of the people appointed judges
that year, of whom the Lord said: That iniquity came out from Babylon,
from the ancient judges, that seemed to govern the people.
13:6. These men frequented the house of Joakim, and all that hand any
maters of judgment came to them.
13:7. And when the people departed away at noon, Susanna went in, and
walked in her husband's orchard.
13:8. And the old men saw her going in every day, and walking: and they
were inflamed with lust towards her:
13:9. And they perverted their own mind, and turned away their eyes,
that they might not look unto heaven, nor remember just judgments.
13:10. So they were both wounded with the love of her, yet they did not
make known their grief one to the other.
13:11. For they were ashamed to declare to one another their lust, being
desirous to have to do with her:
13:12. And they watched carefully every day to see her. And one said to
the other:
13:13. Let us now go home, for it is dinner time. So going out, they
departed one from another.
13:14. And turning back again, they came both to the same place: and
asking one another the cause, they acknowledged their lust: and then
they agreed together upon a time, when they might find her alone.
13:15. And it fell out, as they watched a fit day, she went in on a
time, as yesterday and the day before, with two maids only, and was
desirous to wash herself in the orchard: for it was hot weather.
13:16. And there was nobody there, but the two old men that had hid
themselves, and were beholding her.
13:17. So she said to the maids: Bring me oil, and washing balls, and
shut the doors of the orchard, that I may wash me.
13:18. And they did as she bade them: and they shut the doors of the
orchard, and went out by a back door to fetch what she had commanded
them, and they knew not that the elders were hid within.
13:19. Now when the maids were gone forth, the two elders arose, and ran
to her, and said:
13:20. Behold the doors of the orchard are shut, and nobody seeth us,
and we are in love with thee: wherefore consent to us, and lie with us.
13:21. But if thou wilt not, we will bear witness against thee, that a
young man was with thee, and therefore thou didst send away thy maids
form thee.
13:22. Susanna sighed, and said: I am straitened on every side: for if I
do this thing, it is death to me: and if I do it not, I shall not escape
your hands.
13:23. But it is better for me to fall into your hands without doing it,
than to sin in the sight of the Lord.
13:24. With that Susanna cried out with a loud voice: and the elders
also cried out against her.
13:25. And one of them ran to the door of the orchard, and opened it.
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