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Esther 1:1-3
Revised Standard Version
Esther 1:1-3
Revised Standard Version
King Ahasuerus Deposes Queen Vashti
1 In the days of Ahasu-e′rus, the Ahasu-e′rus who reigned from India to Ethiopia over one hundred and twenty-seven provinces, 2 in those days when King Ahasu-e′rus sat on his royal throne in Susa the capital, 3 in the third year of his reign he gave a banquet for all his princes and servants, the army chiefs[a] of Persia and Media and the nobles and governors of the provinces being before him,
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- Esther 1:3 Heb the army
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