1 Esdras 3:4-6

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⁴ Then the three young men of the bodyguard who kept guard over the person of the king said to one another, ⁵ “Let each of us state what one word is strongest, and to the one whose statement seems wisest, King Darius will give rich gifts and great honors of victory. ⁶ He shall be clothed in purple and drink from gold cups and sleep on a gold bed^[a] and have a chariot with gold bridles and a turban of fine linen and a necklace around his neck,^(A)