Esther 1
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Esther 1:1-2

1The following events happened in the days of Ahasuerus. (I am referring to that Ahasuerus who used to rule over a hundred and twenty-seven provinces extending all the way from India to Ethiopia.)

2In those days, as King Ahasuerus sat on his royal throne in Susa the citadel,

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