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Then Susanna sighed and said, "I am straitened on every side. For if I do this thing, it is death unto me; and if I do it not, I cannot escape your hands.
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It is better for me to fall into your hands and not do it, than to sin in the sight of the Lord."
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With that Susanna cried with a loud voice, and the two elders cried out against her.
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Then ran the one and opened the garden door.
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So when the servants of the house heard the cry in the garden, they rushed in at the private door to see what was done unto her.
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But when the elders had declared their matter, the servants were greatly ashamed, for there was never such a report made of Susanna.
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And it came to pass the next day, when the people were assembled to her husband Joakim, the two elders came also full of wicked imagination against Susanna to put her to death,
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and said before the people, "Send for Susanna, the daughter of Hilkiah, Joakim's wife." And so they sent.
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So she came with her father and mother, her children, and all her kindred.
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Now Susanna was a very delicate woman, and beauteous to behold.
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And these wicked men commanded to uncover her face (for she was covered), that they might be filled with her beauty.