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These came much to Joakim's house, and all who had any suits at law came unto them.
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Now when the people departed away at noon, Susanna went into her husband's garden to walk.
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And the two elders saw her going in every day and walking, so that their lust was inflamed toward 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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And albeit they both were wounded with her love, yet dared not one show another his grief.
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For they were ashamed to declare their lust, that they desired to have to do with her.
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Yet they watched diligently from day to day to see her.
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And the one said to the other, "Let us now go home, for it is dinner time."
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So when they had gone out, they parted the one from the other; and, turning back again, they came to the same place. And after they had asked one another the cause, they acknowledged their lust. Then appointed they a time both together when they might find her alone.
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And it happened, as they watched for a fit time, that she went in as before with two maids only; and she was desirous to wash herself in the garden, for it was hot.
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And there was nobody there save the two elders who had hidden themselves and watched her.