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;
29. and said before the people, Send for Susanna, the daughter of Helkias, Joakim’s wife. So they sent;
30. and she came with her father and mother, her children, and all her kindred.
31. Now Susanna was a very delicate woman, and beauteous to behold.
32. And these wicked men commanded her to be unveiled, (for she was veiled) that they might be filled with her beauty.
33. Therefore her friends and all that saw her wept.