⁴ For every house has a builder, but the one who built everything is God.

³ But Jesus deserves far more glory than Moses, just as a person who builds a house deserves more praise than the house itself.

² And now in these final days, he has spoken to us through his Son. God promised everything to the Son as an inheritance, and through the Son he created the universe.

⁹ If it please the king, issue a decree that they be destroyed, and I will give 10,000 large sacks^[a] of silver to the government administrators to be deposited in the royal treasury.”

¹⁰ Esther had not told anyone of her nationality and family background, because Mordecai had directed her not to do so.