13:3. For her parents being just, had instructed their daughter according to the law of Moses.
13:4. Now Joakim was very rich, and had an orchard near his house: and the Jews resorted to him, because he was the most honourable of them all.
13:5. And there were two of the ancients of the people appointed judges that year, of whom the Lord said: That iniquity came out from Babylon, from the ancient judges, that seemed to govern the people.
13:6. These men frequented the house of Joakim, and all that hand any maters 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: