³⁹ Then he ordered them to get all the people to sit down in groups on the green grass.

⁴⁰ but all things should be done decently and in order.

³³ for God is a God not of disorder but of peace), as in all the churches of the saints.

³⁵ Then ordering the crowd to sit down on the ground,

⁵ When these days were completed, the king gave for all the people present in the citadel of Susa, both great and small, a banquet lasting for seven days, in the court of the garden of the king’s palace.^{(A) 6} There were white cotton curtains and blue hangings tied with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings^[a] and marble pillars. There were couches of gold and silver on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl, and colored stones.^(B)

⁵ the food of his table, the seating of his officials, and the attendance of his servants, their clothing, his valets, and his burnt offerings that he offered at the house of the Lord, it took her breath away.^(A)