Susanna 1:31-43
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31 Now Susanna was a very delicate woman, and beauteous to behold.
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32 And these wicked men commanded to uncover her face, (for she was covered) that they might be filled with her beauty.
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33 Therefore her friends and all that saw her wept.
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34 Then the two elders stood up in the midst of the people, and laid their hands upon her head.
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35 And she weeping looked up toward heaven: for her heart trusted in the Lord.
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36 And the elders said, As we walked in the garden alone, this woman came in with two maids, and shut the garden doors, and sent the maids away.
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37 Then a young man, who there was hid, came unto her, and lay with her.
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38 Then we that stood in a corner of the garden, seeing this wickedness, ran unto them.
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39 And when we saw them together, the man we could not hold: for he was stronger than we, and opened the door, and leaped out.
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40 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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41 Then the assembly believed them as those that were the elders and judges of the people: so they condemned her to death.
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42 Then Susanna cried out with a loud voice, and said, O everlasting God, that knowest the secrets, and knowest all things before they be:
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43 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.