During the seven years of abundance the land produced large, bountiful harvests.<n id="1" />

<p class="poetry">She obtains<n id="1" /> wool and flax,p> <p class="poetry">and she is pleased to work with her hands.<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">So she went down to the threshing floor and did everything her mother-in-law had instructed her to do.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">So he went and got the goats<n id="1" /> and brought them to his mother. She<n id="2" /> prepared some tasty food, just the way his father loved it.

Why haven&#8217;t you obeyed<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>? Instead you have greedily rushed upon the plunder! You have done what is wrong in the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s estimation.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">By your wisdom and understanding you have gained wealth for yourself;p> <p class="poetry">you have amassed gold and silver in your treasuries.p>

<p class="bodytext">Jeroboam&#8217;s wife did as she was told. She went to Shiloh and visited Ahijah.<n id="1" /> Now Ahijah could not see; he had lost his eyesight in his old age.<n id="2" />

So the woman did as the prophet said.<n id="1" /> She and her family went and lived in the land of the Philistines for seven years.

While at the banquet of wine, the king said to Esther, &#8220;What is your request? It shall be given to you. What is your petition? Ask for as much as half the kingdom,<n id="1" /> and it shall be done!&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">It sprouted and became a vine,p> <p class="poetry">spreading low to the ground;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">its branches turning toward him,<n id="2" /> its roots were under itself.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">So it became a vine; it produced shoots and sent out branches.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Now, O Lord our God, who brought your people out of the land of Egypt with great power<n id="1" /> and made a name for yourself that is remembered to this day &#8211; we have sinned and behaved wickedly.

You performed awesome signs<n id="1" /> against Pharaoh, against his servants, and against all the people of his land, for you knew that the Egyptians<n id="2" /> had acted presumptuously<n id="3" /> against them. You made for yourself a name that is celebrated to this day.

On the second day of the banquet of wine the king asked Esther, &#8220;What is your request, Queen Esther? It shall be granted to you. And what is your petition? Ask up to half the kingdom, and it shall be done!&#8221;p>

Then the king said to Queen Esther, &#8220;In Susa the citadel the Jews have killed and destroyed five hundred men and the ten sons of Haman! What then have they done in the rest of the king&#8217;s provinces? What is your request? It shall be given to you. What other petition do you have? It shall be done.&#8221;p>