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)
BIBLES
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 5
Tanakh 14 verses
- 1 Now it came to pass on the third day, that put on her royal apparel, and stood in the inner court of the king’s house, over against the king’s house; and the sat upon his royal throne in the royal house, over against the entrance of the house.
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And it was so, when the saw the queen standing in the court, that she obtained favour in his sight; and the held out to the golden sceptre that was in his hand. So drew near, and touched the top of the sceptre.
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Then said the unto her: ‘What wilt thou, queen ? for whatever thy request, even to the half of the , it shall be given thee.’
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And said: ‘If it seem good unto the , let the and Haman come this day unto the banquet that I have prepared for him.’
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Then the said: ‘Cause Haman to make haste, that it may be done as hath said.’ So the and Haman came to the banquet that had prepared.
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And the said unto at the banquet of wine: ‘Whatever thy petition, it shall be granted thee; and whatever thy request, even to the half of the , it shall be performed.’
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- 7 Then answered , and said: ‘My petition and my request is—
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if I have found favour in the sight of the , and if it please the to grant my petition, and to perform my request—let the and Haman come to the banquet that I shall prepare for them, and I will do to-morrow as the hath said.’
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- 9 Then went Haman forth that day joyful and glad of ; but when Haman saw in the king’s gate, that he stood not up, nor moved for him, Haman was filled with wrath against .
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Nevertheless Haman refrained himself, and went home; and he sent and fetched his friends and Zeresh his wife.
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- 11 And Haman recounted unto them the of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and everything as to how the had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the .
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Haman said moreover: ‘Yea, the queen did let no man come in with the unto the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and to-morrow also am I invited by her together with the .
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Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.’
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Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him: ‘Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak thou unto the that may be hanged thereon; then go thou in merrily with the unto the banquet.’ And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.
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