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If it please the king, let there go a royalcommandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it be not altered, That Vashticome no more beforekingAhasuerus; and let the kinggive her royal estate unto another that is better than she.
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And when the king'sdecree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire, (for it is great,) all the wives shall give to their husbandshonour, both to great and small.