┼╙╘ 5:1 ╬OW IT CAME TO PASS ON THE THIRD DAY, THAT ┼STHER PUT ON HER ROYAL APPAREL, AND STOOD IN THE INNER COURT OF THE KING'S HOUSE, OVER AGAINST THE KING'S HOUSE: AND THE KING SAT UPON HIS ROYAL THRONE IN THE ROYAL HOUSE, OVER AGAINST THE GATE OF THE HOUSE.
┼╙╘ 5:2 ┴ND IT WAS SO, WHEN THE KING SAW ┼STHER THE QUEEN STANDING IN THE COURT, THAT SHE OBTAINED FAVOUR IN HIS SIGHT: AND THE KING HELD OUT TO ┼STHER THE GOLDEN SCEPTRE THAT WAS IN HIS HAND. ╙O ┼STHER DREW NEAR, AND TOUCHED THE TOP OF THE SCEPTRE.
┼╙╘ 5:3 ╘HEN SAID THE KING UNTO HER, ╫HAT WILT THOU, QUEEN ┼STHER? AND WHAT IS THY REQUEST? IT SHALL BE EVEN GIVEN THEE TO THE HALF OF THE KINGDOM.
┼╙╘ 5:4 ┴ND ┼STHER ANSWERED, ╔F IT SEEM GOOD UNTO THE KING, LET THE KING AND ╚AMAN COME THIS DAY UNTO THE BANQUET THAT ╔ HAVE PREPARED FOR HIM.
┼╙╘ 5:5 ╘HEN THE KING SAID, ├AUSE ╚AMAN TO MAKE HASTE, THAT HE MAY DO AS ┼STHER HATH SAID. ╙O THE KING AND ╚AMAN CAME TO THE BANQUET THAT ┼STHER HAD PREPARED.
┼╙╘ 5:6 ┴ND THE KING SAID UNTO ┼STHER AT THE BANQUET OF WINE, ╫HAT IS THY PETITION? AND IT SHALL BE GRANTED THEE: AND WHAT IS THY REQUEST? EVEN TO THE HALF OF THE KINGDOM IT SHALL BE PERFORMED.
┼╙╘ 5:7 ╘HEN ANSWERED ┼STHER, AND SAID, ═Y PETITION AND MY REQUEST IS;
┼╙╘ 5:8 ╔F ╔ HAVE FOUND FAVOUR IN THE SIGHT OF THE KING, AND IF IT PLEASE THE KING TO GRANT MY PETITION, AND TO PERFORM MY REQUEST, LET THE KING AND ╚AMAN COME TO THE BANQUET THAT ╔ SHALL PREPARE FOR THEM, AND ╔ WILL DO TO MORROW AS THE KING HATH SAID.
┼╙╘ 5:9 ╘HEN WENT ╚AMAN FORTH THAT DAY JOYFUL AND WITH A GLAD HEART: BUT WHEN ╚AMAN SAW ═ORDECAI IN THE KING'S GATE, THAT HE STOOD NOT UP, NOR MOVED FOR HIM, HE WAS FULL OF INDIGNATION AGAINST ═ORDECAI.
┼╙╘ 5:10 ╬EVERTHELESS ╚AMAN REFRAINED HIMSELF: AND WHEN HE CAME HOME, HE SENT AND CALLED FOR HIS FRIENDS, AND ┌ERESH HIS WIFE.
┼╙╘ 5:11 ┴ND ╚AMAN TOLD THEM OF THE GLORY OF HIS RICHES, AND THE MULTITUDE OF HIS CHILDREN, AND ALL THE THINGS WHEREIN THE KING HAD PROMOTED HIM, AND HOW HE HAD ADVANCED HIM ABOVE THE PRINCES AND SERVANTS OF THE KING.
┼╙╘ 5:12 ╚AMAN SAID MOREOVER, ┘EA, ┼STHER THE QUEEN DID LET NO MAN COME IN WITH THE KING UNTO THE BANQUET THAT SHE HAD PREPARED BUT MYSELF; AND TO MORROW AM ╔ INVITED UNTO HER ALSO WITH THE KING.
┼╙╘ 5:13 ┘ET ALL THIS AVAILETH ME NOTHING, SO LONG AS ╔ SEE ═ORDECAI THE ╩EW SITTING AT THE KING'S GATE.
┼╙╘ 5:14 ╘HEN SAID ┌ERESH HIS WIFE AND ALL HIS FRIENDS UNTO HIM, ╠ET A GALLOWS BE MADE OF FIFTY CUBITS HIGH, AND TO MORROW SPEAK THOU UNTO THE KING THAT ═ORDECAI MAY BE HANGED THEREON: THEN GO THOU IN MERRILY WITH THE KING UNTO THE BANQUET. ┴ND THE THING PLEASED ╚AMAN; AND HE CAUSED THE GALLOWS TO BE MADE.
