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But Haman, the son of Hammedatha, a Bougaean, was in great honor with the king, and he sought to injure Mordecai and his people because of the two eunuchs of the king.
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In the days of Ahasu-e'rus, the Ahasu-e'rus who reigned from India to Ethiopia over one hundred and twenty-seven provinces,
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in those days when King Ahasu-e'rus sat on his royal throne in Susa the capital,
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in the third year of his reign he gave a banquet for all his princes and servants, the army chiefs of Persia and Media and the nobles and governors of the provinces being before him,
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while he showed the riches of his royal glory and the splendor and pomp of his majesty for many days, a hundred and eighty days.
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