Esther 1:1

Now it came to pass in the days
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of Ahasuerus
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(this [is] Ahasuerus
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which reigned
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from India
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even unto Ethiopia
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[over] an hundred
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and seven
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and twenty
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provinces
<04082>:)

Esther 1:22

For he sent
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letters
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into all the king's
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provinces
<04082>_,

into every province
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according to the writing
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thereof, and to every people
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after their language
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that every man
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should bear rule
<08323> (8802)

in his own house
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and that [it] should be published
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according to the language
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of every people
<05971>_.

{that it...: Heb. that one should publish it according to the language of his people}