Esther

1 After these things hath the king Ahasuerus exalted Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and lifteth him up, and

1 After these things, at the ceasing of the fury of the king Ahasuerus, he hath remembered Vashti, and that

1 And the king cometh in, and Haman, to drink with Esther the queen, 2 and the king saith to

1 On that night hath the sleep of the king fled away, and he saith to bring in the book

1 And it cometh to pass on the third day, that Esther putteth on royalty, and standeth in the inner-court

1 And the king Ahasuerus setteth a tribute on the land and the isles of the sea; 2 and all

1 And in the twelfth month — it `is’ the month of Adar — on the thirteenth day of it,