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Esther 1 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:1 - (LXX 1:1s) And it came to pass after these things in the days of Artaxerxes,—(this Artaxerxes ruled over a hundred and twenty-seven provinces from India)—

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:2 - in those days, when king Artaxerxes was on the throne in the city of Susa,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:3 - in the third year of his reign, he made a feast to his friends, and the other nations, and to the nobles of the Persians and Medes, and the chief of the satraps.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:4 - And after this, after he had shewn to them the wealth of his kingdom, and the abundant glory of his wealth during a hundred and eighty days,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:5 - when, I say, the days of the marriage feast were completed, the king made a banquet to the nations who were present in the city six days, in the court of the king's house,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:6 - which was adorned with hangings of fine linen and flax on cords of fine linen and purple, fastened to golden and silver studs, on pillars of Parian marble and stone: there were golden and silver couches on a pavement of emerald stone, and of pearl, and of Parian stone, and open-worked coverings variously flowered, having roses worked round about;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:7 - gold and silver cups, and a small cup of carbuncle set out of the value of thirty thousand talents, abundant and sweet wine, which the king himself drank.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:8 - And this banquet was not according to the appointed law; but so the king would have it: and he charged the stewards to perform his will and that of the company.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:9 - Also Astin the queen made a banquet for the women in the palace where king Artaxerxes dwelt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:10 - Now on the seventh day the king, being merry, told Aman, and Bazan, and Tharrha, and Barazi, and Zatholtha, and Abataza, and Tharaba, the seven chamberlains, servants of king Artaxerxes,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:11 - to bring in the queen to him, to enthrone her, and crown her with the diadem, and to shew her to the princes, and her beauty to the nations: for she was beautiful.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:12 - But queen Astin hearkened not to him to come with the chamberlains: so the king was grieved and angered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:13 - And he said to his friends, Thus has Astin spoken: pronounce therefore upon this case law and judgment.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:14 - So Arkesæus, and Sarsathæus, and Malisear, the princes of the Persians and Medes, who were near the king, who sat chief in rank by the king, drew near to him,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:15 - and reported to him according to the laws how it was proper to do to queen Astin, because she had not done the things commanded of the king by the chamberlains.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:16 - And Muchæus said to the king and to the princes, Queen Astin has not wronged the king only, but also all the king's rulers and princes:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:17 - for he has told them the words of the queen, and how she disobeyed the king. As then, said he, she refused to obey king Artaxerxes,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:18 - so this day shall the other ladies of the chiefs of the Persians and Medes, having heard what she said to the king, dare in the same way to dishonour their husbands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:19 - If then it seem good to the king, let him make a royal decree, and let it be written according to the laws of the Medes and Persians, and let him not alter it: and let not the queen come in to him any more; and let the king give her royalty to a woman better than she.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:20 - And let the law of the king which he shall have made, be widely proclaimed, in his kingdom: and so shall all the women give honour to their husbands, from the poor even to the rich.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:21 - And the saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king did as Muchæus had said,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:22 - and sent into all his kingdom through the several provinces, according to their language, in order that men might be feared in their own houses.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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