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Esther · read by Jacob Prasch
13 verses, in order. Only the verses Jacob read aloud are shown.
Esther 2
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Some time later, when the anger of King Xerxes had subsided, he remembered Vashti and what she had done, and what had been decreed against her.Read from NASB1995 · Esther
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Then the king's attendants proposed, "Let a search be made for beautiful young virgins for the king,Read from NASB1995 · Esther
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Then let the young woman who pleases the king become queen in place of Vashti." This suggestion pleased the king, and he acted accordingly.Read from NASB1995 · Esther
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He had been carried into exile from Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon among those taken captive with Jeconiah king of Judah.Read from NASB1995 · Esther
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And the young woman pleased him and obtained his favor, so he quickly provided her with beauty treatments and the special diet. He assigned to her seven select maidservants from the palace and transferred her with them to the best place in the harem.Read from NASB1995 · Esther
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Esther did not reveal her people or her lineage, because Mordecai had instructed her not to do so.Read from NASB1995 · Esther
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And every day Mordecai would walk back and forth in front of the court of the harem to learn about Esther's welfare and what was happening to her.Read from NASB1995 · Esther
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In the twelve months before her turn to go to King Xerxes, the harem regulation required each young woman to receive beauty treatments with oil of myrrh for six months, and then with perfumes and cosmetics for another six months.Read from NASB1995 · Esther
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Now Esther was the daughter of Abihail, the uncle from whom Mordecai had adopted her as his own daughter. And when it was her turn to go to the king, she did not ask for anything except what Hegai, the king's trusted official in charge of the harem, had advised. And Esther found favor in the eyes of everyone who saw her.Read from NASB1995 · Esther
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She was taken to King Xerxes in the royal palace in the tenth month, the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.Read from NASB1995 · Esther
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And the king loved Esther more than all the other women, and she found grace and favor in his sight more than all of the other virgins. So he placed the royal crown upon her head and made her queen in place of Vashti.Read from NASB1995 · Esther
Esther 4
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he sent back to her this reply: "Do not imagine that because you are in the king's palace you alone will escape the fate of all the Jews.Read from NASB1995 · Esther
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For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. And who knows if perhaps you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?"Read from NASB1995 · The Book of Esther