Esther:1:16-21
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And Memucan answered before the king and the princes ,
Vashti the queen hath not done wrong to the king only ,
but also to all the princes ,
and to all the people that are in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus .
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For this deed of the queen shall come abroad unto all women ,
so that they shall despise their husbands in their eyes ,
when it shall be reported ,
The king Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him ,
but she came not .
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Likewise shall the ladies of Persia and Media say this day unto all the kings princes ,
which have heard of the deed of the queen .
Thus shall there arise too much contempt and wrath .
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If it please the king ,
let there go a royal commandment from him ,
and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes ,
that it be not altered ,
That Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus ;
and let the king give her royal estate unto another that is better than she .
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And when the kings decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire , (
for it is great , )
all the wives shall give to their husbands honour ,
both to great and small .
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And the saying pleased the king and the princes ;
and the king did according to the word of Memucan :