Esther 3:14Open English Bible (Commonwealth)
A copy of the edict was to be published as a decree in every province – publicly displayed so that everyone might be ready for that day.
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Esther 1:1
These events happened in the time of Ahasuerus, who ruled over a hundred and twenty-seven provinces from India to Ethiopia
Esther 1:16
Memucan replied before the king and the officials, ‘Queen Vashti has done wrong not only to the king but also to all the officials and to all the peoples in all of the king’s provinces.
Esther 1:19
If it seems best to the king, let him send out a royal edict. Let it be written among the laws of Persia and Media, never to be repealed, that Vashti may never again come before King Ahasuerus. Let the king give her place as queen to another who is more worthy than she.
Esther 1:20
When the king’s decree which he makes is heard throughout his kingdom – great as it is – the wives of all classes will give honour to their husbands.’
Esther 1:22
He sent letters to all the provinces, to every province in its own system of writing and to every people in their language, that every man should be master in his own house!