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Therefore her friends and all that 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.
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But having taken this woman, we asked who the young man was, but she would not tell us: these things do we testify.
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Then the assembly believed them as those that were the elders and judges of the people: so they condemned her to death.
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Then Susanna cried out with a loud voice, and said, O everlasting God, that knowest the secrets, and knowest all things before they be:
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Thou knowest that they have borne false witness against me, and, behold, I must die; whereas I never did such things as these men have maliciously invented against me.