![]() So give in to our desire, and lie with us.Ģ1If you refuse, we will testify against you that a young man was here with you and that is why you sent your maids away.”Ģ2“I am completely trapped,” Susanna groaned. When they asked each other the reason, they admitted their lust, and then they agreed to look for an occasion when they could find her alone.ġ5One day, while they were waiting for the right moment, she entered as usual, with two maids only, wanting to bathe in the garden, for the weather was warm.ġ6Nobody else was there except the two elders, who had hidden themselves and were watching her.ġ7“Bring me oil and soap,” she said to the maids, “and shut the garden gates while I bathe.”ġ8They did as she said they shut the garden gates and left by the side gate to fetch what she had ordered, unaware that the elders were hidden inside.ġ9As soon as the maids had left, the two old men got up and ran to her.Ģ0“Look,” they said, “the garden doors are shut, no one can see us, and we want you. ![]() The Jews had recourse to him often because he was the most respected of them all.ĥThat year, two elders of the people were appointed judges, of whom the Lord said, “Lawlessness has come out of Babylon, that is, from the elders who were to govern the people as judges.”ĦThese men, to whom all brought their cases, frequented the house of Joakim.ħWhen the people left at noon, Susanna used to enter her husband’s garden for a walk.ĨWhen the elders saw her enter every day for her walk, they began to lust for her.ĩThey perverted their thinking they would not allow their eyes to look to heaven, and did not keep in mind just judgments.ġ0Though both were enamored of her, they did not tell each other their trouble,ġ1for they were ashamed to reveal their lustful desire to have her.ġ2Day by day they watched eagerly for her.ġ3One day they said to each other, “Let us be off for home, it is time for the noon meal.” So they went their separate ways.ġ4But both turned back and arrived at the same spot. ![]() 1In Babylon there lived a man named Joakim,Ģwho married a very beautiful and God-fearing woman, Susanna, the daughter of Hilkiah ģher parents were righteous and had trained their daughter according to the law of Moses.ĤJoakim was very rich and he had a garden near his house. ![]()
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