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Now when the maids were gone forth, the two elders arose, and ran to her, and said:
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Behold the doors of the orchard are shut, and nobody seeth us, and we are in love with thee: wherefore consent to us, and lie with us.
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But if thou wilt not, we will bear witness against thee, that a young man was with thee, and therefore thou didst send away thy maids from thee.
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Susanna sighed, and said: I am straitened on every side: for if I do this thing, it is death to me: and if I do it not, I shall not escape your hands.
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But it is better for me to fall into your hands without doing it, than to sin in the sight of the Lord.