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Esther 3 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:1 - And after this king Artaxerxes highly honoured Aman son of Amadathes, the Bugæan, and exalted him, and set his seat above all his friends.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:2 - And all in the palace did him obeisance, for so the king had given orders to do: but Mardochæus did not do him obeisance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:3 - And they in the king's palace said to Mardochæus, Mardochæus, why dost thou transgress the commands of the king?

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:4 - Thus they spoke daily to him, but he hearkened not unto them; so they represented to Aman that Mardochæus resisted the commands of the king: and Mardochæus had shewn to them that he was a Jew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:5 - And when Aman understood that Mardochæus did not obeisance to him, he was greatly enraged,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:6 - and took counsel to destroy utterly all the Jews who were under the rule of Artaxerxes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:7 - And he made a decree in the twelfth year of the reign of Artaxerxes, and cast lots daily and monthly, to slay in one day the race of Mardochæus: and the lot fell on the fourteenth day of the month which is Adar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:8 - And he spoke to king Artaxerxes, saying, There is a nation scattered among the nations in all thy kingdom, and their laws differ from those of all the other nations; and they disobey the laws of the king; and it is not expedient for the king to let them alone.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:9 - If it seem good to the king, let him make a decree to destroy them: and I will remit into the king's treasury ten thousand talents of silver.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:10 - And the king took off his ring, and gave it into the hands of Aman, to seal the decrees against the Jews.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:11 - And the king said to Aman, Keep the silver, and treat the nation as thou wilt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:12 - So the king's recorders were called in the first month, on the thirteenth day, and they wrote as Aman commanded to the captains and governors in every province, from India even to Ethiopia, to a hundred and twenty-seven provinces; and to the rulers of the nations according to their several languages, in the name of king Artaxerxes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:13 - And the message was sent by posts throughout the kingdom of Artaxerxes, to destroy utterly the race of the Jews on the first day of the twelfth month, which is Adar, and to plunder their goods.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:14 - And the copies of the letters were published in every province; and an order was given to all the nations to be ready against that day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:15 - And the business was hastened, and that at Susa: and the king and Aman began to drink; but the city was troubled.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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