12. Yet they watched jealously from day to day to see her.
13. And the one said to the other, Let us now go home: for it is dinner time.
14. So when they were gone out, they parted the one from the other, and turning back again they came to the same place; and after that they had asked one another the cause, they acknowledged their lust: and then appointed they a time both together, when they might find her alone.
15. And it fell out, as they watched a fit day, she went in as aforetime with two maids only, and she was desirous to wash herself in the garden: for it was hot.
16. And there was nobody there save the two elders, that had hid themselves, and watched her.
17. Then she said to her maids, Bring me oil and washing balls, and shut the garden doors, that I may wash me.
18. And they did as she bade them, and shut the garden doors, and went out themselves at the side doors to fetch the things that she had commanded them: and they saw not the elders, because they were hid.
19. Now when the maids were gone forth, 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.
21. If you will not, we will bear witness against you, that a young man was with you: and therefore you did send away your maids from you.
22. Then Susanna sighed, and said, I am straitened on every side: for if I do this thing, it is death to me: and if I do it not, I can’t escape your hands.
23. It is better for me to fall into your hands, and not do it, than to sin in the sight of the Lord.
24. With that Susanna cried with a loud voice: and the two elders cried out against her.
25. Then ran the one, and opened the garden doors.
26. So when the servants of the house heard the cry in the garden, they rushed in at the side door, to see what had befallen her.
27. But when the elders had told their tale, the servants were greatly ashamed: for there was never such a report made of Susanna.
28. And it came to pass on the morrow, when the people assembled to her husband Joakim, the two elders came full of their wicked intent against Susanna to put her to death;