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So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
For Mordecai the Jew was next unto king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his brethren, seeking the wealth of his people, and speaking peace to all his seed.
And immediately he rose up before them, and took up that whereon he lay, and departed to his own house, glorifying God.
We be twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.
And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Behold, I also have given thee the charge of mine heave offerings of all the hallowed things of the children of Israel; unto thee have I given them by reason of the anointing, and to thy sons, by an ordinance for ever.
But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.
Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee.
And he came to Capernaum: and being in the house he asked them, What was it that ye disputed among yourselves by the way?
Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands.
And when he had gone over those parts, and had given them much exhortation, he came into Greece,
And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in the four corners thereof; and two rings shall be in the one side of it, and two rings in the other side of it.
Also he made thereunto a border of an handbreadth round about; and made a crown of gold for the border thereof round about.
And Moses and Aaron and the chief of the congregation numbered the sons of the Kohathites after their families, and after the house of their fathers,
And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them.
For the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and so builded. And he that sounded the trumpet was by me.
I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.
Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be mine.
And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence, then was Haman full of wrath.
Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.
And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
And over them that did the work of the field for tillage of the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub:
And as for the people that remained in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, even over them he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, ruler.
And the men arose, and went away: and Joshua charged them that went to describe the land, saying, Go and walk through the land, and describe it, and come again to me, that I may here cast lots for you before the LORD in Shiloh.
