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  Esther

  1:1 Noy provinces:)

  1:2 That in those days, he palace,

  1:3 Ihird year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his princes and his servants; the pohe provinces, being before him:

  1:4 When he shey many days, even an hundred and fourscore days.

  1:5 And he king"s palace;

  1:6 Where e, and black, marble.

  1:7 And they gave them drink in vessels of gold, (the vessels being diverse one from another,) and royal he king.

  1:8 And the drinking o every man"s pleasure.

  1:9 Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the o king Ahasuerus.

  1:10 On the seventh day, he king,

  1:11 T Vashti the queen before the king o look on.

  1:12 But the queen Vashti refused toe at the king"sma by his chamberlains: therefore h, and his anger burned in him.

  1:13 Then the king said to the :

  1:14 And theunto him he kingdom;)

  1:15 What shall he chamberlains?

  1:16 And Memu anshe king Ahasuerus.

  1:17 For this deed of the queen shalle abroad unto all .

  1:18 Likeh.

  1:19 If it please the king, let there go a royalma from him, a be han she.

  1:20 Andand small.

  1:21 And the saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king did acc to the word of Memu:

  1:22 For he seers into all the king"s provinces, into every province acc to the he language of every people.

  2:1 After these things,her.

  2:2 Then said the king"s servants that ministered unto him, Let there be fair young virgins sought for the king:

  2:3 Ahe king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the fair young virgins unto Shushan the palace, to the house of the hem:

  2:4 Ahe maiden he king; and he did so.

  2:5 Noe;

  2:6 Who had been carried ahe king of Babylon had carried away.

  2:7 And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle"s daughter: for she had her father nor mother, and the maid er.

  2:8 So it came to pass, he women.

  2:9 And the maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness of him; and he speedily gave her her things for purification, he women.

  2:10 Esther had not she.

  2:11 And Mordecaishould be of her.

  2:12 Nohe women;)

  2:13 Then thus came every maiden unto the king; he king"s house.

  2:14 In the evening sheshe were called by name.

  2:15 No looked upon her.

  2:16 So Esther h year of his reign.

  2:17 And the king loved Esther above all the i.

  2:18 Then the king made a great feast unto all his princes and his servants, eveher"s feast; and he made a release to the provinces, and gave gifts, acc to the state of the king.

  2:19 And e.

  2:20 Esther had not yet sheh him.

  2:21 In those days, he king Ahasuerus.

  2:22 And the thing hereof in Mordecai"s name.

  2:23 And he king.

  3:1 After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, a his seat above all the prihat h him.

  3:2 And all the king"s servants, that , nor did him reverence.

  3:3 Then the king"s servants, ?

  3:4 No he was a Jew.

  3:5 And h.

  3:6 Ahought s to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had shehe people of Mordecai.

  3:7 In the first month, that is, the month Nisan, ih year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to theelfth month, that is, the month Adar.

  3:8 And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their lahem.

  3:9 If it please the king, let it be reasuries.

  3:10 And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews" enemy.

  3:11 And the king said unto Haman, The silver is given to thee, the people also, to do hee.

  3:12 Then he king"s ring.

  3:13 And the letters hem for a prey.

  3:14 The copy of theday.

  3:15 The posts y Shushan erplexed.

  4:1 When Mordecai perceived all that er cry;

  4:2 And came even before the king"s gate: for none might enter into the king"s gate clothed h.

  4:3 And in every province, h and ashes.

  4:4 So Esther"s maids and her chamberlains came and told it her. Then .

  4:5 Then called Esther for Hatach, one of the king"s chamberlains,was.

  4:6 So Hatach e.

  4:7 And Mordecai told him of all that had happened unto him, and of the sum of the mohat Haman had promised to pay to the king"s treasuries for the Jehem.

  4:8 Also he gave him the copy of thebefore him for her people.

  4:9 And Hatach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.

  4:10 Agaiher spake unto Hatach, and gave himma unto Mordecai;

  4:11 All the king"s servants, and the people of the king"s provinces, do knoy days.

  4:12 And they told to Mordecai Esther"s words.

  4:13 Then Mordecaimao anshe Jews.

  4:14 For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jehis?

  4:15 Theher bade them return Mordecai this answer,

  4:16 Go, gather together all the Jehe law: and if I perish, I perish.

  4:17 So Mordecai her hadmanded him.

  5:1 Nohe house.

  5:2 And it re.

  5:3 Then said the king unto her, What he kingdom.

  5:4 Aher ans I have prepared for him.

  5:5 Then the king said, Cause Haman to make haste, that he may do as Esther hath said. So the king and Haman came to the bahat Esther had prepared.

  5:6 And the king said uher at the ba ofshall be performed.

  5:7 Then ans is;

  5:8 If I have found favour in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my petition, and to perform my request, let the king and Hamao the bahat I shall prepare for them, and I h said.

  5:9 ThenMordecai.

  5:10 heless Haman refrained himself: andand called for his friends, and Zeresh his wife.

  5:11 And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all the things he king.

  5:12 Haman said moreover, Yea, Esther the queen did let no mane in he king.

  5:13 Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jee.

  5:14 Then said Zeresh his o be made.

  6:1 On that night could not the king sleep, and hema the book of records of the icles; and they he king.

  6:2 And it he king Ahasuerus.

  6:3 And the king said, What honour and dignity hath been doo Mordecai for this? Then said the king"s servants that ministered unto him, There is nothing done for him.

  6:4 And the king said, Who is in the court? No he had prepared for him.

  6:5 And the king"s servants said unto him, Behold, Haman stah in the court. And the king said, Let hime in.

  6:6 So Haman came in. And the king said unto him, What shall be doo the man o myself?

  6:7 And Haman anso honour,

  6:8 Let the royal apparel be broughtupon his head:

  6:9 Ahis apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king"s most noble prihat they may array the man o honour.

  6:10 Then the king said to Haman, Make haste, and take the apparel and the horse, as thou hast said, and do even so to Mordecai the Je spoken.

  6:11 Then took Haman the apparel and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and brought him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him, Thus shall it be doo the man o honour.

  6:12 And Mordecai came again to the king"s gate. But Haman hasted to his house m, and having his head covered.

  6:13 And Haman told Zeresh hissurely fall before him.

  6:14 And her had prepared.

  7:1 So the king and Haman came to ba he queen.

  7:2 And the king said again uher on the sed day at the ba of he kingdom.

  7:3 Theher the queen ans:

  7:4 For he king"s damage.

  7:5 Then the king Ahasuerus anso do so?

  7:6 Aher said, The adversary and enemy is this he queen.

  7:7 And the king arising from the ba of he king.

  7:8 Then the kiurned out of the palace garden into the place of the ba of hey covered Haman"s face.

  7:9 And Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, said before the king, Behold also, the gallohereon.

  7:10 So they hanged Haman on the galloh pacified.

  8:1 On that day did the king Ahasuerus give the house of Haman the Jeo her.

  8:2 And the king took off his ring, he house of Haman.

  8:3 Aher spake yet again before the king, and fell dohe Jews.

  8:4 Then the king held out the goldere tohe king,

  8:5 And said, If it please the king, and if I have favour in his sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be he king"s provinces:

  8:6 For hoion of my kindred?

  8:7 Then the king Ahasuerus said uher the queen and to Mordecai the Jehe Jews.

  8:8 Write ye also for the Jehe king"s ring, may no man reverse.

  8:9 Then heir language.

  8:10 And he s on horseback, and riders on mules, camels, and young dromedaries:

  8:11 Wherein the king grahe Jehem for a prey,

  8:12 Upon one day in all the provinces of king Ahasuerus, namely, upohirteenth day of theelfth month, h Adar.

  8:13 The copy of the heir enemies.

  8:14 So the posts that rode upon mules and camels he palace.

  8:15 And Mordecai y of Shushan rejoiced and was glad.

  8:16 The Je, and gladness, and joy, and honour.

  8:17 And in every province, and in every city, hem.

  9:1 Nohem;)

  9:2 The Jehem fell upon all people.

  9:3 And all the rulers of the provinces, and the lieutenants, and the deputies, and officers of the king, helped the Jehem.

  9:4 For Mordecai er.

  9:5 Thus the Jehem.

  9:6 And in Shushan the palace the Jeroyed five hundred men.

  9:7 And Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha,

  9:8 And Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,

  9:9 And Parmashta, and Arisai, and Aridai, and Vajezatha,

  9:10 The ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jeheir hand.

  9:11 On that day the number of those that he king.

  9:12 And the king said uher the queen, The Je shall be done.

  9:13 Then said Esther, If it please the king, let it be grao the Jehe gallows.

  9:14 And the kingma so to be done: and the decree en sons.

  9:15 For the Jeheir hand.

  9:16 But the other Jehe prey,

  9:17 Ohirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same rested they, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.

  9:18 But the Jeing and gladness.

  9:19 Therefore the Jeher.

  9:20 And Mordecai h nigh and far,

  9:21 To stablish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,

  9:22 As the days he poor.

  9:23 And the Jehem;

  9:24 Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jehem;

  9:25 But he gallows.

  9:26 Wherefore they called these days Purim after the name of Pur. Therefore for all the hem,

  9:27 The Jeime every year;

  9:28 And that these days should be remembered ahroughout every geion, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jeheir seed.

  9:29 Theher the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jeer of Purim.

  9:30 And he sent the letters unto all the Jeh,

  9:31 To firm these days of Purim iimes appointed, acc as Mordecai the Jeheir cry.

  9:32 And the decree of Esther firmed these matters of Purim; and it he book.

  10:1 And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land, and upon the isles of the sea.

  10:2 And all the acts of his pohe kings of Media and Persia?

  10:3 For Mordecai the Jeo all his seed.