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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6833f05 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +* text=auto +*.txt text +*.md text diff --git a/8244.txt b/8244.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f5dcd94 --- /dev/null +++ b/8244.txt @@ -0,0 +1,908 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of The World English Bible (WEB): Esther + +Copyright laws are changing all over the world. Be sure to check the +copyright laws for your country before downloading or redistributing +this or any other Project Gutenberg eBook. + +This header should be the first thing seen when viewing this Project +Gutenberg file. Please do not remove it. Do not change or edit the +header without written permission. + +Please read the "legal small print," and other information about the +eBook and Project Gutenberg at the bottom of this file. Included is +important information about your specific rights and restrictions in +how the file may be used. 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The couches were of gold and silver, + on a pavement of red, white, yellow, and black marble. +001:007 They gave them drinks in golden vessels of various kinds, + including royal wine in abundance, according to the bounty + of the king. +001:008 In accordance with the law, the drinking was not compulsory; + for so the king had instructed all the officials of his house, + that they should do according to every man's pleasure. +001:009 Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal + house which belonged to King Ahasuerus. +001:010 On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry + with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, + and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcass, the seven eunuchs who served + in the presence of Ahasuerus the king, +001:011 to bring Vashti the queen before the king with the royal crown, + to show the people and the princes her beauty; + for she was beautiful. +001:012 But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king's commandment + by the eunuchs. Therefore the king was very angry, and his + anger burned in him. +001:013 Then the king said to the wise men, who knew the times, + (for it was the king's custom to consult those who knew + law and judgment; +001:014 and the next to him were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, + Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, + who saw the king's face, and sat first in the kingdom), +001:015 "What shall we do to the queen Vashti according to law, + because she has not done the bidding of the King Ahasuerus + by the eunuchs?" +001:016 Memucan answered before the king and the princes, + "Vashti the queen has not done wrong to just the king, + but also to all the princes, and to all the people who are + in all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus. +001:017 For this deed of the queen will become known to all women, + causing them to show contempt for their husbands, when it + is reported, 'King Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen + to be brought in before him, but she didn't come.' +001:018 Today, the princesses of Persia and Media who have heard + of the queen's deed will tell all the king's princes. + This will cause much contempt and wrath. +001:019 If it please the king, let a royal commandment go from him, + and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, + so that it cannot be altered, that Vashti may never again + come before King Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal + estate to another who is better than she. +001:020 When the king's decree which he shall make is published + throughout all his kingdom (for it is great), all the wives + will give their husbands honor, both great and small." +001:021 This advice pleased the king and the princes, and the king + did according to the word of Memucan: +001:022 for he sent letters into all the king's provinces, into every + province according to its writing, and to every people + in their language, that every man should rule his own house, + speaking in the language of his own people. +002:001 After these things, when the wrath of King Ahasuerus was pacified, + he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was + decreed against her. +002:002 Then the king's servants who served him said, "Let beautiful + young virgins be sought for the king. +002:003 Let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, + that they may gather together all the beautiful young + virgins to the citadel of Susa, to the women's house, + to the custody of Hegai the king's eunuch, keeper of the women. + Let cosmetics be given them; +002:004 and let the maiden who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti." + The thing pleased the king, and he did so. +002:005 There was a certain Jew in the citadel of Susa, whose name + was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son + of Kish, a Benjamite, +002:006 who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captives + who had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, + whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away. +002:007 He brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter; + for she had neither father nor mother. The maiden was fair + and beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, + Mordecai took her for his own daughter. +002:008 So it happened, when the king's commandment and his decree + was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together + to the citadel of Susa, to the custody of Hegai, that Esther + was taken into the king's house, to the custody of Hegai, + keeper of the women. +002:009 The maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness from him. + He quickly gave her cosmetics and her portions of food, + and the seven choice maidens who were to be given her out + of the king's house. He moved her and her maidens to the best + place in the women's house. +002:010 Esther had not made known her people nor her relatives, + because Mordecai had instructed her that she should not + make it known. +002:011 Mordecai walked every day in front of the court of the women's house, + to find out how Esther did, and what would become of her. +002:012 Each young woman's turn came to go in to King Ahasuerus after + her purification for twelve months (for so were the days of + their purification accomplished, six months with oil of myrrh, + and six months with sweet fragrances and with preparations + for beautifying women). +002:013 The young woman then came to the king like this: whatever she + desired was given her to go with her out of the women's house + to the king's house. +002:014 In the evening she went, and on the next day she returned + into the second women's house, to the custody of Shaashgaz, + the king's eunuch, who kept the concubines. She came + in to the king no more, unless the king delighted in her, + and she was called by name. +002:015 Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle + of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, came to go in to + the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's eunuch, + the keeper of the women, advised. Esther obtained favor + in the sight of all those who looked at her. +002:016 So Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus into his royal house + in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh + year of his reign. +002:017 The king loved Esther more than all the women, and she obtained + favor and kindness in his sight more than all the virgins; + so that he set the royal crown on her head, and made her queen + instead of Vashti. +002:018 Then the king made a great feast for all his princes and his servants, + even Esther's feast; and he proclaimed a holiday in the provinces, + and gave gifts according to the king's bounty. +002:019 When the virgins were gathered together the second time, + Mordecai was sitting in the king's gate. +002:020 Esther had not yet made known her relatives nor her people, + as Mordecai had charged her; for Esther obeyed Mordecai, + like she did when she was brought up by him. +002:021 In those days, while Mordecai was sitting in the king's gate, + two of the king's eunuchs, Bigthan and Teresh, who were doorkeepers, + were angry, and sought to lay hands on the King Ahasuerus. +002:022 This thing became known to Mordecai, who informed Esther the queen; + and Esther informed the king in Mordecai's name. +002:023 When this matter was investigated, and it was found to be so, + they were both hanged on a tree; and it was written in the book + of the chronicles in the king's presence. +003:001 After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman the son + of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat + above all the princes who were with him. +003:002 All the king's servants who were in the king's gate bowed down, + and paid homage to Haman; for the king had so commanded + concerning him. But Mordecai didn't bow down or pay him homage. +003:003 Then the king's servants, who were in the king's gate, + said to Mordecai, "Why do you disobey the king's commandment?" +003:004 Now it came to pass, when they spoke daily to him, and he didn't + listen to them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai's + reason would stand; for he had told them that he was a Jew. +003:005 When Haman saw that Mordecai didn't bow down, nor pay him homage, + Haman was full of wrath. +003:006 But he scorned the thought of laying hands on Mordecai alone, + for they had made known to him Mordecai's people. + Therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout + the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the Mordecai's people. +003:007 In the first month, which is the month Nisan, in the twelfth + year of King Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, + before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, + and chose the twelfth month, which is the month Adar. +003:008 Haman said to King Ahasuerus, "There is a certain people + scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all + the provinces of your kingdom, and their laws are different + than other people's. They don't keep the king's laws. + Therefore it is not for the king's profit to allow them to remain. +003:009 If it pleases the king, let it be written that they be destroyed; + and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands + of those who are in charge of the king's business, to bring + it into the king's treasuries." +003:010 The king took his ring from his hand, and gave it to Haman + the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy. +003:011 The king said to Haman, "The silver is given to you, + the people also, to do with them as it seems good to you." +003:012 Then the king's scribes were called in on the first month, + on the thirteenth day of the month; and all that Haman commanded + was written to the king's satraps, and to the governors who + were over every province, and to the princes of every people, + to every province according its writing, and to every people + in their language. It was written in the name of King Ahasuerus, + and it was sealed with the king's ring. +003:013 Letters were sent by couriers into all the king's provinces, + to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, + both young and old, little children and women, in one day, + even on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is + the month Adar, and to plunder their possessions. +003:014 A copy of the letter, that the decree should be given + out in every province, was published to all the peoples, + that they should be ready against that day. +003:015 The couriers went forth in haste by the king's commandment, + and the decree was given out in the citadel of Susa. + The king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city of + Shushan was perplexed. +004:001 Now when Mordecai found out all that was done, Mordecai tore + his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out + into the midst of the city, and wailed loudly and a bitterly. +004:002 He came even before the king's gate, for no one is allowed + inside the king's gate clothed with sackcloth. +004:003 In every province, wherever the king's commandment and his + decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, + and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes. +004:004 Esther's maidens and her eunuchs came and told her this, + and the queen was exceedingly grieved. She sent clothing + to Mordecai, to replace his sackcloth; but he didn't receive it. +004:005 Then Esther called for Hathach, one of the king's eunuchs, + whom he had appointed to attend her, and commanded him to go + to Mordecai, to find out what this was, and why it was. +004:006 So Hathach went out to Mordecai, to city square which was + before the king's gate. +004:007 Mordecai told him of all that had happened to him, and the exact + sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king's + treasuries for the destruction of the Jews. +004:008 He also gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was + given out in Shushan to destroy them, to show it to Esther, + and to declare it to her, and to urge her to go in to the king, + to make supplication to him, and to make request before him, + for her people. +004:009 Hathach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai. +004:010 Then Esther spoke to Hathach, and gave him a message to Mordecai: +004:011 "All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, + know, that whoever, whether man or woman, comes to the king + into the inner court without being called, there is one law + for him, that he be put to death, except those to whom + the king might hold out the golden scepter, that he may live. + I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days." +004:012 They told to Mordecai Esther's words. +004:013 Then Mordecai asked them return answer to Esther, "Don't think + to yourself that you will escape in the king's house any more + than all the Jews. +004:014 For if you remain silent now, then relief and deliverance + will come to the Jews from another place, but you and your + father's house will perish. Who knows if you haven't come + to the kingdom for such a time as this?" +004:015 Then Esther asked them to answer Mordecai, +004:016 "Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, + and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, + night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. + Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; + and if I perish, I perish." +004:017 So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther + had commanded him. +005:001 Now it happened on the third day that Esther put on her + royal clothing, and stood in the inner court of the king's house, + next to the king's house. The king sat on his royal throne + in the royal house, next to the entrance of the house. +005:002 When the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, + she obtained favor in his sight; and the king held + out to Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand. + So Esther came near, and touched the top of the scepter. +005:003 Then the king asked her, "What would you like, queen Esther? What is + your request? It shall be given you even to the half + of the kingdom." +005:004 Esther said, "If it seems good to the king, let the king and Haman + come today to the banquet that I have prepared for him." +005:005 Then the king said, "Bring Haman quickly, so that it may be done + as Esther has said." So the king and Haman came to the banquet + that Esther had prepared. +005:006 The king said to Esther at the banquet of wine, "What is + your petition? It shall be granted you. What is your request? + Even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed." +005:007 Then Esther answered and said, "My petition and my request is this. +005:008 If I have found favor 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 Haman come to the banquet that I will prepare + for them, and I will do tomorrow as the king has said." +005:009 Then Haman went out that day joyful and glad of heart, but when + Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, that he didn't stand up + nor move for him, he was filled with wrath against Mordecai. +005:010 Nevertheless Haman restrained himself, and went home. + There, he sent and called for his friends and Zeresh his wife. +005:011 Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, the multitude + of his children, all the things in which the king had promoted him, + and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants + of the king. +005:012 Haman also said, "Yes, Esther the queen let no man come in with + the king to the banquet that she had prepared but myself; + and tomorrow I am also invited by her together with the king. +005:013 Yet all this avails me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai + the Jew sitting at the king's gate." +005:014 Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, + "Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the + morning speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on it. + Then go in merrily with the king to the banquet." + This pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made. +006:001 On that night, the king couldn't sleep. He commanded the book + of records of the chronicles to be brought, and they were read + to the king. +006:002 It was found written that Mordecai had told of Bigthana + and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs, who were doorkeepers, + who had tried to lay hands on the King Ahasuerus. +006:003 The king said, "What honor and dignity has been bestowed on + Mordecai for this?" Then the king's servants who attended + him said, "Nothing has been done for him." +006:004 The king said, "Who is in the court?" Now Haman had come into + the outer court of the king's house, to speak to the king about + hanging Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him. +006:005 The king's servants said to him, "Behold, Haman stands in the court." + The king said, "Let him come in." +006:006 So Haman came in. The king said to him, "What shall + be done to the man whom the king delights to honor?" + Now Haman said in his heart, "Who would the king delight + to honor more than myself?" +006:007 Haman said to the king, "For the man whom the king delights to honor, +006:008 let royal clothing be brought which the king uses to wear, + and the horse that the king rides on, and on the head + of which a crown royal is set. +006:009 Let the clothing and the horse be delivered to the hand + of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may + array the man whom the king delights to honor with them, + and have him ride on horseback through the city square, + and proclaim before him, 'Thus shall it be done to the man + whom the king delights to honor!'" +006:010 Then the king said to Haman, "Hurry and take the clothing and + the horse, as you have said, and do this for Mordecai the Jew, + who sits at the king's gate. Let nothing fail of all that + you have spoken." +006:011 Then Haman took the clothing and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, + and had him ride through the city square, and proclaimed + before him, "Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king + delights to honor!" +006:012 Mordecai came back to the king's gate, but Haman hurried + to his house, mourning and having his head covered. +006:013 Haman recounted to Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything + that had happened to him. Then his wise men and Zeresh his wife + said to him, "If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, + is of Jewish descent, you will not prevail against him, + but you will surely fall before him." +006:014 While they were yet talking with him, the king's eunuchs came, + and hurried to bring Haman to the banquet that Esther had prepared. +007:001 So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen. +007:002 The king said again to Esther on the second day at the banquet + of wine, "What is your petition, queen Esther? It shall + be granted you. What is your request? Even to the half + of the kingdom it shall be performed." +007:003 Then Esther the queen answered, "If I have found favor in your sight, + O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me + at my petition, and my people at my request. +007:004 For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, + and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondservants + and bondmaids, I would have held my peace, although the adversary + could not have compensated for the king's loss." +007:005 Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen, "Who is he, + and where is he who dared presume in his heart to do so?" +007:006 Esther said, "An adversary and an enemy, even this + wicked Haman!" Then Haman was afraid before the king + and the queen. +007:007 The king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went + into the palace garden. Haman stood up to make request + for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was + evil determined against him by the king. +007:008 Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place + of the banquet of wine; and Haman had fallen on the couch + where Esther was. Then the king said, "Will he even assault + the queen in front of me in the house?" As the word went + out of the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face. +007:009 Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs who were with the king said, + "Behold, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman has + made for Mordecai, who spoke good for the king, is standing + at Haman's house." The king said, "Hang him on it!" +007:010 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared + for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified. +008:001 On that day, King Ahasuerus gave the house of Haman, the Jews' + enemy, to Esther the queen. Mordecai came before the king; + for Esther had told what he was to her. +008:002 The king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, + and gave it to Mordecai. Esther set Mordecai over the + house of Haman. +008:003 Esther spoke yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, + and begged him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman + the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews. +008:004 Then the king held out to Esther the golden scepter. + So Esther arose, and stood before the king. +008:005 She said, "If it pleases the king, and if I have found favor + in his sight, and the thing seem right to the king, and I am + pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters + devised by Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote + to destroy the Jews who are in all the king's provinces. +008:006 For how can I endure to see the evil that would come to my people? + How can I endure to see the destruction of my relatives?" +008:007 Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen and to Mordecai + the Jew, "See, I have given Esther the house of Haman, + and him they have hanged on the gallows, because he laid + his hand on the Jews. +008:008 Write also to the Jews, as it pleases you, in the king's name, + and seal it with the king's ring; for the writing which is + written in the king's name, and sealed with the king's ring, + may not be reversed by any man." +008:009 Then the king's scribes were called at that time, in the third + month Sivan, on the twenty-third day of the month; + and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded + to the Jews, and to the satraps, and the governors and + princes of the provinces which are from India to Ethiopia, + one hundred twenty-seven provinces, to every province according + to its writing, and to every people in their language, + and to the Jews in their writing, and in their language. +008:010 He wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus, and sealed it with + the king's ring, and sent letters by courier on horseback, + riding on royal horses that were bread from swift steeds. +008:011 In those letters, the king granted the Jews who were in every + city to gather themselves together, and to defend their life, + to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all the power + of the people and province that would assault them, their little + ones and women, and to plunder their possessions, +008:012 on one day in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, on the thirteenth + day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar. +008:013 A copy of the letter, that the decree should be given + out in every province, was published to all the peoples, + that the Jews should be ready for that day to avenge themselves + on their enemies. +008:014 So the couriers who rode on royal horses went out, + hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment. + The decree was given out in the citadel of Susa. +008:015 Mordecai went out of the presence of the king in royal + clothing of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, + and with a robe of fine linen and purple; and the city of Susa + shouted and was glad. +008:016 The Jews had light, gladness, joy, and honor. +008:017 In every province, and in every city, wherever the king's commandment + and his decree came, the Jews had gladness, joy, a feast, + and a good day. Many from among the peoples of the land + became Jews; for the fear of the Jews was fallen on them. +009:001 Now in the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, + on the thirteenth day of the month, when the king's + commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, + on the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to conquer them, + (but it was turned out the opposite happened, that the Jews + conquered those who hated them), +009:002 the Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout + all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus, to lay hands on + those who wanted to harm them. No one could withstand them, + because the fear of them had fallen on all the people. +009:003 All the princes of the provinces, the satraps, the governors, + and those who did the king's business helped the Jews, + because the fear of Mordecai had fallen on them. +009:004 For Mordecai was great in the king's house, and his fame went + out throughout all the provinces; for the man Mordecai grew + greater and greater. +009:005 The Jews struck all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, + and with slaughter and destruction, and did what they wanted + to those who hated them. +009:006 In the citadel of Susa, the Jews killed and destroyed + five hundred men. +009:007 They killed Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha, +009:008 Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha, +009:009 Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai, and Vaizatha, +009:010 the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Jew's enemy, + but they didn't lay their hand on the plunder. +009:011 On that day, the number of those who were slain in the citadel + of Susa was brought before the king. +009:012 The king said to Esther the queen, "The Jews have slain + and destroyed five hundred men in the citadel of Susa, + including the ten sons of Haman; what then have they done in + the rest of the king's provinces! Now what is your petition? + It shall be granted you. What is your further request? + It shall be done." +009:013 Then Esther said, "If it pleases the king, let it be granted + to the Jews who are in Shushan to do tomorrow also according + to this day's decree, and let Haman's ten sons be hanged + on the gallows." +009:014 The king commanded this to be done. A decree was given out + in Shushan; and they hanged Haman's ten sons. +009:015 The Jews who were in Shushan gathered themselves together + on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and killed + three hundred men in Shushan; but they didn't lay their hand + on the spoil. +009:016 The other Jews who were in the king's provinces gathered themselves + together, defended their lives, had rest from their enemies, + and killed seventy-five thousand of those who hated them; + but they didn't lay their hand on the plunder. +009:017 This was done on the thirteenth day of the month Adar; + and on the fourteenth day of that month they rested and made + it a day of feasting and gladness. +009:018 But the Jews who were in Shushan assembled together on + the thirteenth and on the fourteenth days of the month; + and on the fifteenth day of that month, they rested, + and made it a day of feasting and gladness. +009:019 Therefore the Jews of the villages, who live in the unwalled towns, + make the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness + and feasting, a good day, and a day of sending presents + of food to one another. +009:020 Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters to all the Jews + who were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, + both near and far, +009:021 to enjoin them that they should keep the fourteenth and fifteenth + days of the month Adar yearly, +009:022 as the days in which the Jews had rest from their enemies, + and the month which was turned to them from sorrow to gladness, + and from mourning into a good day; that they should make + them days of feasting and gladness, and of sending presents + of food to one another, and gifts to the needy. +009:023 The Jews accepted the custom that they had begun, as Mordecai + had written to them; +009:024 because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy + of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, + and had cast "Pur," that is the lot, to consume them, + and to destroy them; +009:025 but when this became known to the king, he commanded by letters + that his wicked device, which he had devised against the Jews, + should return on his own head, and that he and his sons + should be hanged on the gallows. +009:026 Therefore they called these days "Purim,{Purim is the Hebrew + plural for pur, which means lot.}" from the word "Pur." + Therefore because of all the words of this letter, + and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, + and that which had come to them, +009:027 the Jews established, and imposed on themselves, and on + their descendants, and on all those who joined themselves + to them, so that it should not fail, that they would keep + these two days according to what was written, and according + to its appointed time, every year; +009:028 and that these days should be remembered and kept throughout + every generation, every family, every province, and every city; + and that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, + nor the memory of them perish from their seed. +009:029 Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai + the Jew, wrote with all authority to confirm this second + letter of Purim. +009:030 He sent letters to all the Jews, to the hundred twenty-seven + provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, with words of + peace and truth, +009:031 to confirm these days of Purim in their appointed times, + as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had decreed, + and as they had imposed upon themselves and their descendants, + in the matter of the fastings and their cry. +009:032 The commandment of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; + and it was written in the book. +010:001 King Ahasuerus laid a tribute on the land, and on the islands + of the sea. +010:002 All the acts of his power and of his might, and the full account + of the greatness of Mordecai, to which the king advanced him, + aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings + of Media and Persia? +010:003 For Mordecai the Jew was next to King Ahasuerus, and great among + the Jews, and accepted by the multitude of his brothers, + seeking the good of his people, and speaking peace to + all his descendants. + + + + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE WORLD ENGLISH BIBLE (WEB): ESTHER *** + +This file should be named 8244.txt or 8244.zip + +Project Gutenberg eBooks are often created from several printed +editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the US +unless a copyright notice is included. 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