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Esther · read by Stephen Baker
15 verses, in order. Only the verses Stephen read aloud are shown.
Esther 2
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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 KJV · Esther 8
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Esther still had not revealed her lineage or her people, just as Mordecai had instructed. She obeyed Mordecai's command, as she had done under his care.Read from KJV · Esther 8
Esther 8
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That same day King Xerxes awarded Queen Esther the estate of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. And Mordecai entered the king's presence because Esther had revealed his relation to her.Read from KJV · Esther 8
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The king removed the signet ring he had recovered from Haman and presented it to Mordecai. And Esther appointed Mordecai over the estate of Haman.Read from KJV · Esther 8
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And once again, Esther addressed the king. She fell at his feet weeping and begged him to revoke the evil scheme of Haman the Agagite, which he had devised against the Jews.Read from KJV · Esther 8
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The king extended the gold scepter toward Esther, and she arose and stood before the king.Read from KJV · Esther 8
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"If it pleases the king," she said, "and if I have found favor in his sight, and the matter seems proper to the king, and I am pleasing in his sight, may an order be written to revoke the letters that the scheming Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, wrote to destroy the Jews in all the king's provinces.Read from KJV · Esther 8
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For how could I bear to see the disaster that would befall my people? How could I bear to see the destruction of my kindred?"Read from KJV · Esther 8
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So King Xerxes said to Esther the Queen and Mordecai the Jew, "Behold, I have given Haman's estate to Esther, and he was hanged on the gallows because he attacked the Jews.Read from KJV · Esther 8
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Now you may write in the king's name as you please regarding the Jews, and seal it with the royal signet ring. For a decree that is written in the name of the king and sealed with the royal signet ring cannot be revoked."Read from KJV · Esther 8
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At once the royal scribes were summoned, and on the twenty-third day of the third month (the month of Sivan ), they recorded all of Mordecai's orders to the Jews and to the satraps, governors, and princes of the 127 provinces from India to Cush —writing to each province in its own script, to every people in their own language, and to the Jews in their own script and language.Read from KJV · Esther 8
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Mordecai wrote in the name of King Xerxes and sealed it with the royal signet ring. He sent the documents by mounted couriers riding on swift horses bred from the royal mares.Read from KJV · Esther 8
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Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal garments of blue and white, with a large gold crown and a purple robe of fine linen. And the city of Susa shouted and rejoiced.Read from KJV · Esther 8
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In every province and every city, wherever the king's edict and decree reached, there was joy and gladness among the Jews, with feasting and celebrating. And many of the people of the land themselves became Jews, because the fear of the Jews had fallen upon them.Read from KJV · Esther 8