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Now Susanna was exceeding delicate, and beautiful to behold.
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But those wicked men commanded that her face should be uncovered, (for she was covered,) that so at least they might be satisfied with her beauty.
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Therefore her friends and all her acquaintance wept.
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But the two elders rising up in the midst of the people, laid their hands upon her head.
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And she weeping looked up to heaven, for her heart had confidence in the Lord.
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And the elders said: As we walked in the orchard alone, this woman came in with two maids, and shut the doors of the orchard, and sent away the maids from her.
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Then a young man that was there hid came to her, and lay with her.
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But we that were in a corner of the orchard, seeing this wickedness, ran up to them, and we saw them lie together.
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And him indeed we could not take, because he was stronger than us, and opening the doors be leaped out:
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But having taken this woman, we asked who the young man was, but she would not tell us: of this thing we are witnesses.
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The multitude believed them as being the elders and the judges of the people, and they condemned her to death.