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Likewise those who do not serve in the army or make war but till the soil; whenever they sow and reap, they bring some to the king; and they compel one another to pay taxes to the king.
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And yet he is only one man! If he tells them to kill, they kill; if he tells them to release, they release;
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if he tells them to attack, they attack; if he tells them to lay waste, they lay waste; if he tells them to build, they build;
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if he tells them to cut down, they cut down; if he tells them to plant, they plant.
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All his people and his armies obey him. Furthermore, he reclines, he eats and drinks and sleeps,
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but they keep watch around him, and no one may go away to attend to his own affairs, nor do they disobey him.
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Gentlemen, why is not the king the strongest, since he is to be obeyed in this fashion?" And he stopped speaking.
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Then the third, who had spoken of women and truth (and this was Zerubbabel), began to speak:
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"Gentlemen, is not the king great, and are not men many, and is not wine strong? Who is it, then, that rules them, or has the mastery over them? Is it not women?
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Women gave birth to the king and to every people that rules over sea and land.
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From women they came; and women brought up the very men who plant the vineyards from which comes wine.