13:6. These men frequented the house of Joakim, and all that hand any matters of judgment came to them.
13:7. And when the people departed away at noon, Susanna went in, and walked in her husband's orchard.
13:8. And the old men saw her going in every day, and walking: and they were inflamed with lust towards her:
13:9. And they perverted their own mind, and turned away their eyes, that they might not look unto heaven, nor remember just judgments.
13:10. So they were both wounded with the love of her, yet they did not make known their grief one to the other.
13:11. For they were ashamed to declare to one another their lust, being desirous to have to do with her:
13:12. And they watched carefully every day to see her. And one said to the other:
13:13. Let us now go home, for it is dinner time. So going out, they departed one from another.
13:14. And turning back again, they came both to the same place: and asking one another the cause, they acknowledged their lust: and then they agreed together upon a time, when they might find her alone.
13:15. And it fell out, as they watched a fit day, she went in on a time, as yesterday and the day before, with two maids only, and was desirous to wash herself in the orchard: for it was hot weather.