1. In Babylon there lived a man named Joakim,
2. who married a very beautiful and God-fearing woman, Susanna, the daughter of Hilkiah;
3. her parents were righteous and had trained their daughter according to the law of Moses.
4. Joakim was very rich and he had a garden near his house. The Jews had recourse to him often because he was the most respected of them all.