Esther 1:11-13

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

¹¹ to bring Queen Vashti before the king, wearing the royal crown, in order to show the peoples and the officials her beauty; for she was fair to behold. ¹² But Queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s command conveyed by the eunuchs. At this the king was enraged, and his anger burned within him.

¹³ Then the king consulted the sages who knew the laws^[a] (for this was the king’s procedure towards all who were versed in law and custom,