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Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.
The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
Then the king Ahasuerus said unto Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and him they have hanged upon the gallows, because he laid his hand upon the Jews.
I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their broidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble at every moment, and be astonished at thee.
And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written,
Of Iddo, Zechariah; of Ginnethon, Meshullam;
From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation,
Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;
That the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping of his covenant it might stand.
Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.
And the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD: this is holy for the priest, with the wave breast and heave shoulder: and after that the Nazarite may drink wine.
The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.
Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.
Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?
Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous,
And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation:
And of the sons of Elizaphan; Shimri, and Jeiel: and of the sons of Asaph; Zechariah, and Mattaniah:
The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.
Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith the LORD; that ye might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.
And she conceived again, and bare a son: and she said, Now will I praise the LORD: therefore she called his name Judah; and left bearing.
And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them.
