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In the days of Ahasuerus (This is Ahasuerus who reigned from India even to Ethiopia, over 127 provinces,

in those days when King Ahasuerus sat on his throne, which was in the palace of Shushan),

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Queen Vashti Deposed

This is what happened during the time of Xerxes,[a](A) the Xerxes who ruled over 127 provinces(B) stretching from India to Cush[b]:(C) At that time King Xerxes reigned from his royal throne in the citadel of Susa,(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Esther 1:1 Hebrew Ahasuerus; here and throughout Esther
  2. Esther 1:1 That is, the upper Nile region