Verse (Click for Chapter) New Revised Standard Version If you refuse, we will testify against you that a young man was with you, and this was why you sent your maids away.” New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge But if thou wilt not, we will bear witness against thee, that a young man was with thee, and therefore thou didst send away thy maids from thee. Daniel 13:19Now when the maids were gone forth, the two elders arose, and ran to her, and said: Daniel 13:20 Behold the doors of the orchard are shut, and nobody seeth us, and we are in love with thee: wherefore consent to us, and lie with us. Daniel 13:22 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 shall not escape your hands. Daniel 13:23 But it is better for me to fall into your hands without doing it, than to sin in the sight of the Lord. Context Daniel 13…20Behold the doors of the orchard are shut, and nobody seeth us, and we are in love with thee: wherefore consent to us, and lie with us. 21But if thou wilt not, we will bear witness against thee, that a young man was with thee, and therefore thou didst send away thy maids from thee. 22Susanna 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 shall not escape your hands.… Cross References Daniel 13:19 Now when the maids were gone forth, the two elders arose, and ran to her, and said: Daniel 13:20 Behold the doors of the orchard are shut, and nobody seeth us, and we are in love with thee: wherefore consent to us, and lie with us. Daniel 13:22 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 shall not escape your hands. Daniel 13:23 But it is better for me to fall into your hands without doing it, than to sin in the sight of the Lord. |
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