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Esther 2:18-20
Christian Standard Bible
Esther 2:18-20
Christian Standard Bible
18 The king held a great banquet for all his officials and staff.(A) It was Esther’s banquet. He freed his provinces from tax payments and gave gifts worthy of the king’s bounty.(B)
Mordecai Saves the King
19 When the virgins(C) were gathered a second time, Mordecai was sitting at the King’s Gate.(D) 20 Esther still did not reveal her family background or her ethnicity, as Mordecai had directed. She obeyed Mordecai’s orders, as she always had while he raised her.
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