¹⁶ And Memucan answered before the king and the princes: “Queen Vashti has not only wronged the king, but also all the princes, and all the people who are in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus.

³ He took me there, and behold, there was a man whose appearance was ^(A)like the appearance of bronze. ^(B)He had a line of flax ^(C)and a measuring rod in his hand, and he stood in the gateway.