³⁹ Then he commanded them all to sit down in groups on the green grass.

^40 (A)But all things should be done decently and ^(B)in order.

³³ For God is not a God of ^(A)confusion but of peace.

As in ^(B)all the churches of the saints,

³⁵ And directing the crowd to sit down on the ground,

⁵ And when these days were completed, the king gave for all the people present in Susa the citadel, both great and small, a feast lasting for seven days in the court of ^(A)the garden of the king's palace. ⁶ There were white cotton curtains and violet hangings fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rods^[a] and marble pillars, and also ^(B)couches of gold and silver on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl, and precious stones.

⁵ the food of his table, the seating of his officials, and the attendance of his servants, their clothing, his cupbearers, and his burnt offerings that he offered at the house of the Lord, there was no more breath in her.