1 Esdras 3:9-11

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⁹ “When the king wakes, they will give him the writing, and to the one whose statement the king and the three nobles of Persia judge to be wisest the victory shall be given according to what is written.”^{(A) 10} The first wrote, “Wine is strongest.” ¹¹ The second wrote, “The king is strongest.”