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.