RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

which were to be given to her, out of the melech’s bayit:
and he preferred her and her female avadim to the best
place of the bayit of the women.
10 Esther had not revealed her national identity nor her
relatives: for Mordechai had ordered her that she should
not declare it.
11 And Mordechai walked every day before the court of
the women’s bayit, to know how Esther was doing, and
what would become of her.
12 Now when every virgin’s turn had come to go in to
Melech Achashverosh, after she had been purified twelve
months, according to the manner of the women; for in this
manner were the days of their purifications accomplished;
six months with the oil of myrrh, and six months with
sweet odors.
13 Then came every virgin to the melech; whatever she
desired was given to her to go with her out from the bayit
of the women to the melech’s bayit.
14 In the evening she went, and the next day she returned
into the second bayit of the women, to the custody of
Shaashgaz, the melech’s officer, who kept the
concubines: she came in to the melech no more, unless
the melech delighted in her, so that she was called by
name a second time.
15 Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Avihail
the uncle of Mordechai, who had taken her for his
daughter, had come to go in to the melech, she required
nothing but what Hegai the melech’s officer, the guardian
of the women, had advised. And Esther obtained favor in
the sight of all those that looked upon her.
16 So Esther was taken to Melech Achashverosh into his
royal bayit in the tenth month, which is the month Teveth,
in the seventh year of his reign.
17 And the melech loved Esther above all the women,
and she obtained favor and kindness in his sight more
than all the virgins; so that he set the royal keter upon her
head, and made her malka instead of Vashti.
18 Then the melech made a great feast to all his princes
and his avadim, even Esther’s Feast; and he made a
release to the provinces, and gave gifts, according to the
means of a melech.
19 And when the virgins were gathered together the
second time, then Mordechai sat in the melech’s gate.
20 Esther had not yet revealed her relatives, or her
national identity; as Mordechai had ordered her: for
Esther followed the commandment of Mordechai, just
like when she was brought up with him.
21 In those days, while Mordechai sat in the melech’s
gate, two of the melech’s officers, Bigthan and Teresh, of
those who guarded the palace door, were angry, and
sought to lay hands on the Melech Achashverosh.
22 And the matter became known to Mordechai, who told
it to Esther the malka; and Esther informed the melech in
Mordechai’s name.
23 And when an investigation was made of the matter, it
was confirmed; therefore they were both hanged on an
eytz: and it was written in the scroll of the chronicles
before the melech.
3 After these things did Melech Achashverosh promote
Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and
advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes that
were with him.
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2 And all the melech’s avadim, that were in the melech’s
gate, bowed, and reverenced Haman: for the melech had
so commanded concerning him. But Mordechai bowed
not, nor did him reverence.
3 Then the melech’s avadim, who were in the melech’s
gate, said to Mordechai, Why do you transgress the
melech’s commandment?
4 Now it came to pass, when they spoke daily to him, and
he listened not to them, that they told Haman, to see
whether Mordechai’s words would stand: for he had told
them that he was a Yahudi.
5 And when Haman saw that Mordechai bowed not, nor
did him reverence, then was Haman full of anger.
6 And he thought it despicable to lay hands on Mordechai
alone; for they had shown him the identity of the people
of Mordechai: therefore Haman sought to destroy all the
Yahudim that were throughout the whole malchut of
Achashverosh, even the people of Mordechai.
7 In the first month, that is, the month Nissan, in the
twelfth year of Melech Achashverosh, they cast Pur, that
is, the lots, before Haman from day to day, and from
month to month, to the twelfth month, which is, the
month Adar.
8 And Haman said to Melech Achashverosh, There is a
certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the
nation 4142 in all the provinces of your malchut; and their
laws are diverse from all peoples; neither do they keep the
melech’s laws: therefore it is not for the melech’s benefit
to let them remain alive.
9 If it please the melech, let it be written that they may be
destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to
the hands of those that have the duties of the business, to
bring it into the melech’s treasuries.
10 And the melech took his ring from his hand, and gave
it to Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the
Yahudim’s enemy.
11 And the melech said to Haman, The silver is given to
you, the people also, to do with them as it seems tov to
you.
12 Then were the melech’s Sophrim called on the
thirteenth day of the first month, and there was written
according to all that Haman had commanded to the
melech’s lieutenants, and to the governors that were over
every province, and to the rulers of every people of every
province according to the written decree, and to every
people in their own language; in the name of Melech
Achashverosh it was written, and sealed with the
melech’s seal.
13 And the letters were sent by messengers into all the
melech’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to
perish, all the Yahudim, both young and old, little
children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth
day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to
take their plunder as a spoil.
14 The copy of the decree was issued as a commandment
to be given in every province and was published to all the
people, that they should be ready for that day.
15 The messengers went out, being quickened by the
melech’s commandment, and the decree was given in
Shushan the palace. And the melech and Haman sat down
to drink; but the city of Shushan was in confusion.
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When Mordechai perceived all that was done,