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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 gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south.
Then the king said to Haman, Make haste, and take the apparel and the horse, as thou hast said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew, that sitteth at the king's gate: let nothing fail of all that thou hast spoken.
I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.
For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?
But it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment, than for you.
The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.
Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground?
This is that Benaiah, who was mighty among the thirty, and above the thirty: and in his course was Ammizabad his son.
And he made staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold.
When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.
Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.
And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.
Then Nathan said unto David, Do all that is in thine heart; for God is with thee.
Many are my persecutors and mine enemies; yet do I not decline from thy testimonies.
For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
Dimnah with her suburbs, Nahalal with her suburbs; four cities.
A just weight and balance are the LORD'S: all the weights of the bag are his work.
And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers.
Then were the king's scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first month, and there was written according to all that Haman had commanded unto the king's lieutenants, and to the governors that were over every province, and to the rulers of every people of every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language; in the name of king Ahasuerus was it written, and sealed with the king's ring.
That thou mayest buy speedily with this money bullocks, rams, lambs, with their meat offerings and their drink offerings, and offer them upon the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem.
Notwithstanding no devoted thing, that a man shall devote unto the LORD of all that he hath, both of man and beast, and of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy unto the LORD.
And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.
