1Some time later, when the anger of King…
2Then the king’s attendants proposed, “Let a search…
3and let the king appoint commissioners in each…
4Then let the young woman who pleases the…
5Now there was at the citadel of Susa…
6He had been carried into exile from Jerusalem…
7And Mordecai had brought up Hadassah (that is,…
8When the king’s command and edict had been…
9And the young woman pleased him and obtained…
10Esther did not reveal her people or her…
11And every day Mordecai would walk back and…
12In the twelve months before her turn to…
13When the young woman would go to the…
14She would go there in the evening, and…
15Now Esther was the daughter of Abihail, the…
16She was taken to King Xerxes in the…
17And the king loved Esther more than all…
18Then the king held a great banquet, Esther’s…
19When the virgins were assembled a second time,…
20Esther still had not revealed her lineage or…
21In those days, while Mordecai was sitting at…
22When Mordecai learned of the plot, he reported…
23After the report had been investigated and verified,…
