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 7
Tanakh 10 verses
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So the and Haman came to banquet with the queen.
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And the said again unto on the second day at the banquet of wine: ‘Whatever thy petition, queen , it shall be granted thee; and whatever thy request, even to the half of the , it shall be performed.’
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Then the queen answered and said: ‘If I have found favour in thy sight, O , and if it please the , let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request;
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- 4 for we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my , for the adversary is not worthy that the be endamaged.’
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Then spoke the Ahasuerus and said unto the queen: ‘Who is he, and where is he, that durst presume in his to do so?’
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- 6 And said: ‘An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman.’ Then Haman was terrified before the and the queen.
- 7 And the arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went into the palace garden; but Haman remained to make request for his life to the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the .
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Then the returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen upon the couch whereon was. Then said the : ‘Will he even force the queen before me in the house?’ As the went out of the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s .
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- 9 Then said Harbonah, one of the chamberlains that were before the : ‘Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman hath made for , who spoke good for the , standeth in the house of Haman.’ And the said: ‘Hang him thereon.’
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So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for . Then was the king’s wrath assuaged.
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