Then the young woman who pleases the king(A) will become queen instead of Vashti.”(B) This suggestion pleased the king, and he did accordingly.

In the fortress of Susa, there was a Jewish man named Mordecai(C) son of Jair, son of Shimei,(D) son of Kish,(E) a Benjaminite. Kish[a] had been taken into exile from Jerusalem with the other captives when King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon took King Jeconiah of Judah into exile.(F)

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