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 6
Tanakh 14 verses
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On that night could not the sleep; and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles, and they were read before the .
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And it was found written, that had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s chamberlains, of those that kept the door, who had sought to lay hands on the Ahasuerus.
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- 3 And the said: ‘What and dignity hath been done to for this?’ Then said the king’s servants that ministered unto him: ‘There is nothing done for him.’
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And the said: ‘Who is in the court?’—Now Haman was come into the outer court of the king’s house, to speak unto the to hang on the gallows that he had prepared for him.—
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- 5 And the king’s servants said unto him: ‘Behold, Haman standeth in the court.’ And the said: ‘Let him come in.’
- 6 So Haman came in. And the said unto him: ‘What shall be done unto the man whom the delighteth to ?’—Now Haman said in his : ‘Whom would the delight to besides myself?’—
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And Haman said unto the : ‘For the man whom the delighteth to ,
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let royal apparel be brought which the useth to wear, and the horse that the rideth upon, and on whose head a royal is set;
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and let the apparel and the horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king’s most noble princes, that they may array the man therewith whom the delighteth to , and cause him to ride on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaim before him: Thus shall it be done to the man whom the delighteth to .’
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Then the said to Haman: ‘Make haste, and take the apparel and the horse, as thou hast said, and do even so to the Jew, that sitteth at the king’s gate; let nothing fail of all that thou hast spoken.’
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Then took Haman the apparel and the horse, and arrayed , and caused him to ride through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him: ‘Thus shall it be done unto the man whom the delighteth to .’
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- 12 And returned to the king’s gate. But Haman hasted to his house, mourning and having his head covered.
- 13 And Haman recounted unto Zeresh his wife and all his friends every thing that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife unto him: ‘If , before whom thou hast begun to fall, be of the seed of the Jews, thou shalt not prevail against him, but shalt surely fall before him.’
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While they were yet talking with him, came the king’s chamberlains, and hastened to bring Haman unto the banquet that had prepared.
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