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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 who 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, who 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."