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And there were two of the ancients of the people appointed judges that year, of whom the Lord said: Iniquity came out from Babylon from the ancient judges, that seemed to govern the people.
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These men frequented the house of Joakim, and all that had any matters of judgment came to them.
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And when the people departed away at noon, Susanna went in, and walked in her husband's orchard.
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And the old men saw her going in every day, and walking: and they were inflamed with lust towards her:
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And they perverted their own mind and turned away their eyes that they might not look unto heaven, nor remember just judgments.
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So they were both wounded with the love of her, yet they did not make known their grief one to the other:
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For they were ashamed to declare to one another their lust, being desirous to have to do with her.
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And they watched carefully every day to see her. And one said to the other:
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Let us now go home, for it is dinner time. So going out they departed one from another.
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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 upon a time, when they might find her alone.
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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.