³⁹ Then He ^(A)commanded them to make them all sit down in groups on the green grass.

^40 (A)Let all things be done decently and in order.

³³ For God is not the author of ^[a]confusion but of peace, ^(A)as in all the churches of the saints.

³⁵ So He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground.

⁵ And when these days were completed, the king made a feast lasting seven days for all the people who were present in ^[a]Shushan the ^[b]citadel, from great to small, in the court of the garden of the king’s palace. ⁶ There were white and blue linen curtains fastened with cords of fine linen and purple on silver rods and marble pillars; and the ^(A)couches were of gold and silver on a mosaic pavement of alabaster, turquoise, and white and black marble.

⁵ the food on his table, the seating of his servants, the service of his waiters and their apparel, his cupbearers, ^(A)and his entryway by which he went up to the house of the Lord, there was no more spirit in her.