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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.
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Therefore her friends and all who saw her wept.
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Then the two elders stood up in the midst of the people and laid their hands upon her head.
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And she, weeping, looked up toward heaven; for her heart trusted in the Lord.
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And the elders said, "As we walked in the garden alone, this woman came in with two maids, and shut the garden doors, and sent the maids away.
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Then a young man, who there was hid, came unto her and lay with her.
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Then we that stood in a corner of the garden, seeing this wickedness, ran unto them.
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And when we saw them together, the man we could not hold, for he was stronger than we, and opened the door and leaped out.