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Daniel 13:13-20 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

13. "Let us go home, for it is lunch time." And going out, they departed one from another.

14. And returning again, they came to the same place, and, each asking the other the reason, they admitted their desire. And then they agreed to set a time when they would be able to find her alone.

15. But it happened, while they watched for an opportune day, that she entered at a particular time, just as yesterday and the day before, with only two maids, and she wanted to wash in the orchard, because it was so hot.

16. And there was no one there, except the two elders in hiding, and they were studying her.

17. And so she said to the maids, "Bring me oil and ointments, and shut the doors of the orchard, so that I may wash."

18. And they did as she ordered them. And they shut the doors of the orchard and left through a back door to fetch what she required, and they did not know that the elders were hiding within.

19. But when the maids had departed, the two elders arose and hurried to her, and they said,

20. "Behold, the doors of the orchard are closed, and no one can see us, and we are in desire for you. Because of these things, consent to us and lie with us.

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