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Esther 2:4-6
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
Esther 2:4-6
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
4 And let the girl who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti.’ This pleased the king, and he did so.
5 Now there was a Jew in the citadel of Susa whose name was Mordecai son of Jair son of Shimei son of Kish, a Benjaminite. 6 Kish[a] had been carried away from Jerusalem among the captives carried away with King Jeconiah of Judah, whom King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had carried away.
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- Esther 2:6 Heb a Benjaminite 6 who
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