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noctem illam rex duxit insomnem iussitque adferri sibihistorias et annales priorum temporum qui cum illo praesentelegerentur

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ventum est ad eum locum ubi scriptum erat quomodo nuntiassetMardocheus insidias Bagathan et Thares eunuchorum regem Asuerumiugulare cupientium

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quod cum rex audisset ait quid pro hac fide honoris acpraemii Mardocheus consecutus est dixeruntque ei servi illiusac ministri nihil omnino mercedis accepit

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statimque rex quis est inquit in atrio Aman quippe interiusatrium domus regiae intraverat ut suggereret regi et iuberetMardocheum adfigi patibulo quod ei fuerat praeparatum

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responderunt pueri Aman stat in atrio dixitque rexingrediatur

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cumque esset ingressus ait illi quid debet fieri viro quemrex honorare desiderat cogitans Aman in corde suo et reputansquod nullum alium rex nisi se vellet honorare

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respondit homo quem rex honorare cupit

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debet indui vestibus regiis et inponi super equum qui desella regis est et accipere regium diadema super caput suum

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et primus de regis principibus ac tyrannis teneat equum eiuset per plateam civitatis incedens clamet ac dicat sichonorabitur quemcumque rex voluerit honorare

6:10
dixitque ei rex festina et sumpta stola et equo fac ita utlocutus es Mardocheo Iudaeo qui sedet ante fores palatii cavene quicquam de his quae locutus es praetermittas

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tulit itaque Aman stolam et equum indutumque Mardocheum inplatea civitatis et inpositum equo praecedebat atque clamabathoc honore condignus est quemcumque rex voluerit honorare

6:12
reversus est Mardocheus ad ianuam palatii et Amanfestinavit ire in domum suam lugens et operto capite

6:13
narravitque Zares uxori suae et amicis omnia quaeevenissent sibi cui responderunt sapientes quos habebat inconsilio et uxor eius si de semine Iudaeorum est Mardocheusante quem cadere coepisti non poteris ei resistere sed cades inconspectu eius

6:14
adhuc illis loquentibus venerunt eunuchi regis et cito eumad convivium quod regina paraverat pergere conpulerunt

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006:001
On that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king.

006:002
And it was found written, that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's chamberlains, the keepers of the door, who sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus.

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And the king said, What honour and dignity hath been done to Mordecai for this? Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, There is nothing done for him.

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And the king said, Who is in the court? Now Haman was come into the outward court of the king's house, to speak unto the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.

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And the king's servants said unto him, Behold, Haman standeth in the court. And the king said, Let him come in.

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So Haman came in. And the king said unto him, What shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour? Now Haman thought in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honour more than to myself?

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And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king delighteth to honour,

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Let the royal apparel be brought which the king useth to wear, and the horse that the king rideth upon, and the crown royal which is set upon his head:

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And let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may array the man withal whom the king delighteth to honour, and bring him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaim before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delighteth to honour.

006:010
Then the king said to Haman, Make haste, and take the apparel and the horse, as thou hast said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew, that sitteth at the king's gate: let nothing fail of all that thou hast spoken.

006:011
Then took Haman the apparel and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and brought him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him, Thus shall it be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour.

006:012
And Mordecai came again to the king's gate. But Haman hasted to his house mourning, and having his head covered.

006:013
And Haman told Zeresh his wife and all his friends every thing that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife unto him, If Mordecai be of the seed of the Jews, before whom thou hast begun to fall, thou shalt not prevail against him, but shalt surely fall before him.

006:014
And while they were yet talking with him, came the king's chamberlains, and hasted to bring Haman unto the banquet that Esther had prepared.

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