RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

that he had prepared for him.
5 And the melech’s avadim said to him, Behold, Haman
stands in the court. And the melech said, Let him come in.
6 So Haman came in. And the melech said to him, What
shall be done to the man whom the melech delights to
honor? Now Haman thought in his lev, To whom would
the melech delight to do honor more than to myself?
7 And Haman answered the melech, For the man whom
the melech delights to honor,
8 Let the royal apparel be brought which the melech
wears, and the horse that the melech rides upon, and the
royal keter that is set upon his head:
9 And let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand
of one of the melech’s most noble princes, that they may
array the man completely whom the melech delights to
honor, and bring him on horseback through the streets of
the city, and proclaim before him, So shall it be done to
the man whom the melech delights to honor.
10 Then the melech said to Haman, Hurry, and take the
apparel and the horse, as you have said, and do so to
Mordechai the Yahudi, that sits at the melech’s gate: let
nothing fail of all that you have spoken.
11 Then took Haman the apparel and the horse, and
arrayed Mordechai, and brought him on horseback
through the streets of the city, and proclaimed before him,
So shall it be done to the man whom the melech delights
to honor.
12 And Mordechai came again to the melech’s gate. But
Haman hurried back to his bayit mourning, and having his
head covered.
13 And Haman told Zeresh his wife and all his chaverim
everything that had happened to him. Then said his wise
men and Zeresh his wife to him, If Mordechai is of the
zera of the Yahudim, you shall not prevail against him,
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14 And while they were yet talking with him, the
melech’s officers came, and quickly brought Haman to
the banquet that Esther had prepared.
7 So the melech and Haman came to the banquet with
Esther the malka.
2 And the melech said again to Esther on the second day
at the banquet of wine, What is your petition, Malka
Esther? And it shall be granted you: and what is your
request? And it shall be performed, even to half of the
malchut.
3 Then Esther the malka answered and said, If I have
found favor in your sight, O melech, and if it please the
melech, let my chayim be given me at my petition, and
my people at my request:
4 For we have been sold, I and my people, to be
destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been
sold even as avadim, I would have remained silent,
although the enemy could not make up the damage to the
melech.
5 Then the Melech Achashverosh answered and said to
Esther the malka, Who is he, and where is he, that does
presume in his lev to do so?
6 And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this
wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the
melech and the malka.
7 And the melech arising from the banquet of wine in
anger went into the palace gan: and Haman stood up to
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make a request for his chayim to Esther the malka; for he
saw that there was evil determined against him by the
melech.
8 Then the melech returned out of the palace gan into the
place of the banquet of wine; and Haman fell upon the
bed on which Esther was. Then said the melech, Will he
force the malka sexually also before me in the bayit? As
the word went out of the melech’s mouth, they covered
Haman’s face.
9 And Havonah, one of the officers, said before the
melech, Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which
Haman had made for Mordechai, who had spoken tov for
the melech, stands at the bayit of Haman. Then the
melech said, Hang him on it.
10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had
prepared for Mordechai. Then was the melech’s anger
abated.
On that day did the Melech Achashverosh give the
bayit of Haman the Yahudim’s enemy to Esther the
malka. And Mordechai came before the melech; for
Esther had told him how he was related to her.
2 And the melech took off his ring, which he had taken
from Haman, and gave it to Mordechai. And Esther set
Mordechai over the bayit of Haman.
3 And Esther spoke yet again before the melech, and fell
down at his feet, and besought him with tears to put away
the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his evil device
that he had devised against the Yahudim.
4 Then the melech held out the golden scepter toward
Esther. So Esther arose, and stood before the melech,
5 And said, If it please the melech, and if I have found
favor in his sight, and the thing seems right before the
melech, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to
reverse the letters devised by Haman the son of
Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the
Yahudim who are in all the melech’s provinces:
6 For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come to
my people? Or, how can I endure to see the destruction of
my relatives?
7 Then the Melech Achashverosh said to Esther the malka
and to Mordechai the Yahudi, Behold, I have given
Esther the bayit of Haman, and him they have hanged
upon the gallows, because he laid his hand upon the
Yahudim.
8 Write also for the Yahudim, whatever you like, in the
melech’s name, and seal it with the melech’s ring: for the
writing which is written in the melech’s name, and sealed
with the melech’s ring, no man can reverse.
9 Then were the melech’s Sophrim called at that time in
the third month, that is, the month Sivan, on the twentythird
day; and it was written according to all that
Mordechai commanded to the Yahudim, and to the
lieutenants, and the deputies and rulers of the provinces
which are from India to Ethiopia, 4146 8
a hundred twenty
seven provinces, to every province according to their
writing, and to every people after their language, and to
the Yahudim according to their writing, and according to
their language.
10 And he wrote in the Melech Achashverosh’s name,
and sealed it with the melech’s ring, and sent letters by
messenger posts on horseback, and riders on mules,
camels, and young mares: