Susanna 3-5

Common English Bible

³ Her parents were good people, and they taught their daughter according to the Law from Moses.

⁴ Joakim was very rich, and he had a large private garden next to his home. The Jews came to him because he was the most honored among them. ⁵ Two elders among the people had been appointed as judges that year. It was about them that the Lord had spoken: “Lawless disorder^[a] has come out of Babylon, from elders, from judges who were supposed to guide the people.”