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 2
Tanakh 23 verses
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After these things, when the wrath of Ahasuerus was assuaged, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.
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Then said the king’s servants that ministered unto him: ‘Let there be sought for the young virgins fair to look on;
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and let the appoint officers in all the provinces of his , that they may gather together all the fair young virgins unto Shushan the castle, to the house of the women, unto the custody of Hegai the king’s chamberlain, keeper of the women; and let their ointments be given them;
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and let the maiden that pleaseth the be queen instead of Vashti.’ And the thing pleased the ; and he did so.
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There was a certain Jew in Shushan the castle, whose was the son of Jair the son of Shimei the son of Kish, a Benjamite,
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who had been carried away from with the captives that had been carried away with Jeconiah of , whom the of had carried away.
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And he brought up Hadassah, that is, , his uncle’s daughter; for she had neither father nor mother, and the maiden was of beautiful form and fair to look on; and when her father and mother were dead, took her for his own daughter.
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So it came to pass, when the king’s and his decree was published, and when many maidens were gathered together unto Shushan the castle, to the custody of Hegai, that was taken into the king’s house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women.
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And the maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness of him; and he speedily gave her her ointments, with her portions, and the seven maidens, who were meet to be given her out of the king’s house; and he advanced her and her maidens to the best place in the house of the women.
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had not made known her people nor her kindred; for had charged her that she should not tell it.
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And walked every day before the court of the women’s house, to how did, and what would become of her.
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Now when the turn of every maiden was come to go in to Ahasuerus, after that it had been done to her according to the for the women, twelve months—for so were the days of their anointing accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of myrrh, and six month with sweet odours, and with other ointments of the women—
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- 13 when then the maiden came unto the , whatsoever she desired was given her to go with her out of the house of the women unto the king’s house.
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In the evening she went, and on the morrow she returned into the second house of the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king’s chamberlain, who kept the concubines; she came in unto the no more, except the delighted in her, and she were called by .
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Now when the turn of , the daughter of Abihail the uncle of , who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the , she required nothing but what Hegai the king’s chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked upon her.
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So was taken unto Ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.
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And the loved above all the women, and she obtained and favour in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal upon her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.
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- 18 Then the made a great feast unto all his princes and his servants, even Esther’s feast; and he made a release to the provinces, and gave gifts, according to the bounty of the .
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And when the virgins were gathered together the second time, and sat in the king’s gate—
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had not yet made known her kindred nor her people; as had charged her; for did the of , like as when she was brought up with him—
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- 21 in those days, while sat in the king’s gate, two of the king’s chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those that kept the door, were wroth, and sought to lay hands on the Ahasuerus.
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And the thing became known to , who told it unto the queen; and told the thereof in Mordecai’s .
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And when inquisition was made of the matter, and it was found to be so, they were both hanged on a tree; and it was written in the book of the chronicles before the .
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