Daniel 13:19–27
19Now when the maids had gone out, the two elders rose up and ran to her, saying,↗
20“Behold, the garden doors are shut, that no man can see us, and we are in love with you. Therefore consent to us, and lie with us.↗
21If you will not, we will testify against you, that a young man was with you; therefore you sent your maids away from you.”↗
22Then Susanna sighed, and said, “I am trapped; for if I do this thing, it is death to me. If I don’t do it, I can’t escape your hands.↗
23It is better for me to fall into your hands, and not do it, than to sin in the sight of the Lord.”↗
24With that Susanna cried with a loud voice; and the two elders cried out against her.↗
25Then one of them ran and opened the garden doors.↗
26So when the servants of the house heard the cry in the garden, they rushed in at the side door to see what had happened to her.↗
27But when the elders had told their tale, the servants were greatly ashamed; for there was never such a report made of Susanna.↗
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