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Mordecai presented to King
On the same day, King Ahasuerus gave Queen Esther the house of Haman, the enemy of the Jews, and Mordecai came before the king, for Esther had informed the family that bound her. The king took his ring, he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai, Esther, meanwhile, set Mordecai over the house of Haman.
New application of Esther the king
Then Esther spoke again before the king. She threw herself at his feet she cried, she begged him to prevent the effects of the evil Haman, the Agagite, and the success of his plans against the Jews. The king extended the golden scepter to Esther, who rose and stood before the king. She said: If the king is good and if I have found favor with him, if it seems appropriate to the king and if I am pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman the son of 'Hammedatha the Agagite, and written by him in order to destroy the Jews who are in all the king's provinces. For how could I see the evil that would reach my people, and how I could see the destruction of my race?
Agreement king
King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and Mordecai the Jew, Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and he was hanged on a tree because he laid his hand So the cons Juifs.8 Write to the Jews as you please, on behalf of the king, and seal with the king's ring: for a letter written on behalf of the king and sealed with the king's ring can be revoked . The king's secretaries were called in those days, the twenty-third day of the third month, which is the month of Sivan, and they wrote, after all that was ordered by Mordecai, the Jews, the satraps, governors and heads of one hundred twenty-seven provinces located in India to Ethiopia, to every province according its writing, to every people after their language, and Jews according to their writing and according to their language. They wrote the name of King Ahasuerus, and sealed it with the king's ring. They sent letters by courier with the frames of horses and mules born to mares. In these letters, the king gave the Jews in every city they were, for permission to gather and defend their lives, destroy, kill and destroy, with their grandchildren and their wives, all those of every nation and every province who took up arms to attack, and deliver their goods to pillage, and that in a single day in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, the thirteenth of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar. These letters contained a copy of the edict was to be published in each province, and informed all people that the Jews would be held ready for that day to avenge themselves on their enemies. The couriers, riding on horses and mules, and immediately went in haste from the king's command. The decree was published in Susa, the capital.
Escalation Mordecai
Mordecai left the king with a royal blue and white clothing, a large gold crown and a robe of fine linen and purple. The city of Susa shouted and rejoiced. There was for Jews only happiness and joy, joy and glory. In every province and every city, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree, there was among the Jews of joy and gladness, feasting and parties. And many people from the peoples of the land became Jews because fear of the Jews fell upon them.
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