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1 Esdras 3:2-4
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
1 Esdras 3:2-4
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
2 and all the satraps and generals and governors who were under him in the hundred twenty-seven satrapies from India to Ethiopia.(A) 3 They ate and drank, and when they were satisfied they went away, and King Darius went to his bedroom; he went to sleep but woke up again.(B)
4 Then the three young men of the bodyguard who kept guard over the person of the king said to one another,
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