Holy Scripture

Esther (Greek) 1:19

Source: Septuagint

Original

19If 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 anymore; and let the king give her royalty to a woman better than she.

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17for 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,

18so 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 dishonor their husbands.

Esther (Greek) 1:19

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

21And the saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king did as Memucan had said,

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