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Esther 9:3

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

All the officials of the provinces, the satraps, the governors, and the royal civil administrators  , aided the Jews because they feared Mordecai.

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They also delivered the king’s edicts to the royal satraps and governors of the region west of the Euphrates,  so that they would support the people and the house of God.


King Nebuchadnezzar sent word to assemble the satraps, prefects, governors, advisers, treasurers, judges, magistrates, and all the rulers  of the provinces to attend the dedication of the statue King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.


On the twenty-third day of the third month  #– #that is, the month Sivan #– #the royal scribes were summoned. Everything was written exactly as Mordecai  commanded for the Jews, to the satraps,  the governors, and the officials of the 127 provinces from India to Cush.  The edict was written for each province in its own script, for each ethnic group in its own language,  and to the Jews in their own script and language.


She said, ‘If it pleases the king and I have found favour with him, if the matter seems right to the king and I am pleasing in his eyes,  let a royal edict be written. Let it revoke the documents the scheming Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the king’s provinces.


The royal scribes were summoned  on the thirteenth day of the first month, and the order was written exactly as Haman commanded. It was intended for the royal satraps,  the governors of each of the provinces, and the officials of each ethnic group and written for each province in its own script and to each ethnic group in its own language.  It was written in the name of King Ahasuerus  and sealed with the royal signet ring.


They came with Zerubbabel,  Jeshua,  Nehemiah, Seraiah,  Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah. The number of the Israelite men included


In every province and every city where the king’s command and edict reached, gladness and joy took place among the Jews. There was a celebration and a holiday.  , And many of the ethnic groups of the land professed themselves to be Jews because fear of the Jews  had overcome them.





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