These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Esther 1
Tanakh 22 verses
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NOW IT came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus—this is Ahasuerus who reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, over a hundred and seven and twenty provinces—
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that in those days, when the Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his , which was in Shushan the castle,
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- 3 in the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his princes and his servants; the army of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, being before him;
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when he showed the riches of his glorious and the of his excellent majesty, many days, even a hundred and fourscore days.
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Colossians 1:27 Psalm 21:5 Psalm 145:5 Psalm 93:1 Ephesians 1:18 Job 40:10 Psalm 45:3 Revelation 4:11 Matthew 4:8 Matthew 6:13 Psalm 76:1-4 Daniel 4:30 1 Chronicles 29:25 1 Chronicles 29:11-12 Daniel 2:37-44 Romans 9:23 Daniel 4:36 Psalm 145:12-13 Daniel 5:18 Daniel 7:9-14 Ezekiel 28:5 Isaiah 39:2 2 Peter 1:16-17 -
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And when these days were fulfilled, the made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the castle, both great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king’s palace;
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there were hangings of white, fine cotton, and blue, bordered with cords of fine linen and purple, upon silver rods and pillars of marble; the couches were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of green, and white, and shell, and onyx marble.
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And they gave them drink in vessels of gold—the vessels being diverse one from another—and royal wine in abundance, according to the bounty of the .
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And the drinking was according to the ; none did compel; for so the had appointed to all the officers of his house, that they should do according to every man’s pleasure.
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Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to Ahasuerus.
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- 10 On the seventh day, when the of the was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Bizzetha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven chamberlains that ministered in the presence of Ahasuerus the ,
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to bring Vashti the queen before the with the royal, to show the peoples and the princes her beauty; for she was fair to look on.
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- 12 But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s by the chamberlains; therefore was the very wroth, and his anger burned in him.
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Then the said to the wise men, who knew the times—for so was the king’s manner toward all that knew and judgment;
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and the next unto him was Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, who saw the king’s , and sat the first in the :
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What shall we do unto the queen Vashti according to , forasmuch as she hath not done the bidding of the Ahasuerus by the chamberlains?’
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And Memucan answered before the and the princes: ‘Vashti the queen hath not done wrong to the only, but also to all the princes, and to all the peoples, that are in all the provinces of the Ahasuerus.
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For this deed of the queen will come abroad unto all women, to make their husbands contemptible in their eyes, when it will be said: The Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she came not.
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And this day will the princesses of Persia and Media who have heard of the deed of the queen say the like unto all the king’s princes. So will there arise enough contempt and wrath.
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If it please the , let there go forth a royal from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it be not altered, that Vashti come no more before Ahasuerus, and that the give her royal estate unto another that is better than she.
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And when the king’s decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his , great though it be, all the wives will give to their husbands , both to great and small.’
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And the pleased the and the princes; and the did according to the of Memucan;
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- 22 for he sent letters into all the king’s provinces, into every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language, that every man should bear rule in his own house, and speak according to the language of his people.