Daniel 13:10–18

¹⁰And although they both were wounded with lust for her, yet dared not show the other his grief.↗

¹¹For they were ashamed to declare their lust, what they desired to do with her.↗

¹²Yet they watched eagerly from day to day to see her.↗

¹³The one said to the other, “Let’s go home, now; for it is dinner time.”↗

¹⁴So when they had gone out, they parted company, and turning back again, they came to the same place. After they had asked one another the cause, they acknowledged their lust. Then they appointed a time both together, when they might find her alone.↗

¹⁵It happened, as they watched on an opportune day, she went in as before with only two maids, and she desired to wash herself in the garden; for it was hot.↗

¹⁶There was nobody there except the two elders who had hid themselves and watched her.↗

¹⁷Then she said to her maids, “Bring me olive oil and ointment, and shut the garden doors, that I may wash myself.”↗

¹⁸They did as she asked them and shut the garden doors, and went out themselves at the side doors to fetch the things that she had commanded them. They didn’t see the elders, because they were hidden.↗