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And King Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land and upon the isles of the sea.
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And all the acts of his power and of his might, and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai to which the king advanced him, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?
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For Mordecai the Jew was next unto King Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews and accepted by the multitude of his brethren, seeking the wellbeing of his people and speaking peace to all his seed.
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Then Mordecai said, "God hath done these things.
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For I remember a dream which I saw concerning these matters, and nothing thereof hath failed.
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A little fountain became a river, and there was light, and the sun, and much water. This river is Esther, whom the king married and made queen;
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and the two dragons are I and Haman.
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And the nations were those that were assembled to destroy the name of the Jews;