³⁴ Then he took servings to them from before him, but Benjamin’s serving was ^(A)five times as much as any of theirs. So they drank and were merry with him.

⁹ Now the young woman pleased him, and she obtained his favor; so he readily gave ^(A)beauty preparations to her, besides ^[a]her allowance. Then seven choice maidservants were provided for her from the king’s palace, and he moved her and her maidservants to the best place in the house of the women.

²² as the days on which the Jews had rest from their enemies, as the month which was turned from sorrow to joy for them, and from mourning to a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and joy, of ^(A)sending presents to one another and gifts to the ^(B)poor.

⁴ And I will bring back to this place ^[a]Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah who went to Babylon,’ says the Lord, ‘for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.’ ”