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Esther 1:11-13
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Esther 1:11-13
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
11 to bring Queen Vashti before the king wearing the royal crown, in order to show the peoples and the officials her beauty, for she was fair to behold. 12 But Queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s command conveyed by the eunuchs. At this the king was enraged, and his anger burned within him.
13 Then the king consulted the sages who knew the laws[a] (for this was the king’s procedure toward all who were versed in law and custom,(A)
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- 1.13 Cn: Heb times
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