- Later when the anger of King Xerxes had subsided, he remembered Vashti and what she had done and what he had decreed about her.
- Then the king's personal attendants proposed, "Let a search be made for beautiful young virgins for the king.
- Let the king appoint commissioners in every province of his realm to bring all these beautiful girls into the harem at the citadel of Susa. Let them be placed under the care of Hegai, the king's eunuch, who is in charge of the women; and let beauty treatments be given to them.
- Then let the girl who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti." This advice appealed to the king, and he followed it.
- Now there was in the citadel of Susa a Jew of the tribe of Benjamin, named Mordecai son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish,
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- 這事以後、亞哈隨魯王的忿怒止息、就想念瓦實提和他所行的、並怎樣降旨辦他。
- 於是王的侍臣對王說、不如為王尋找美貌的處女.
- 王可以派官在國中的各省招聚美貌的處女到書珊城〔或作宮〕的女院、交給掌管女子的太監希該、給他們當用的香品.
- 王所喜愛的女子、可以立為王后、代替瓦實提.王以這事為美、就如此行。
- 書珊城有一個猶大人、名叫末底改、是便雅憫人基士的曾孫、示每的孫子、睚珥的兒子.
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