preliminary Esther BP edits (#30)

est/01/01.md

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 # How far did Ahasuerus reign?
 
-Ahasuerus reigned from India as far as Ethiopia, over 127 provinces. 
+Ahasuerus ruled from India even as far as Ethiopia, 127 provinces.

est/01/03.md

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 # Who was in the king's presence?
 
-The army of Persia and Media, the noblemen, and governors of the provinces were in his presence. 
+His officials and his administrators, the army of Persia and Media, the noblemen, and the governors of the provinces. 

est/01/05.md

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-# Who was the feast that lasted seven days for?
+# For whom did the king give the feast that lasted seven days?
 
-The seven day feast was for all the people in the palace of Susa, from the greatest to the least significant. 
-
-# For whom did the king give the feast?
-
-The feast was for all the people in the palace of Susa, from the greatest to the least significant. 
+All the people who were found in Susa the citadel, from the greatest even to the least. 

est/01/07.md

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 # Why was there much royal wine?
 
-There was much royal wine because of the king's generosity. 
+The wine of royalty was abundant according to the hand of the king. And the drinking was according to the law, "There is no compulsion." 

est/01/08.md

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-# What were the king's orders to all the staff of his palace?
+# What were the king's orders to all the overseers of his palace?
 
-The king gave orders to all the staff of his palace to do for them whatever each guest desired. 
+And the drinking was according to the law, "There is no compulsion," for thus the king had established for every overseer of his house, to do according to the desire of man by man.

est/01/10.md

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 # What did the king tell the seven officials who served before him?
 
-The king told the seven officials who served before him to bring Queen Vashti before him with her royal crown. 
+To bring Vashti the queen before the king in a crown of royalty in order to show the people and the officials her beauty. 

est/01/11.md

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 # What did the king tell the seven officials who served before him?
 
-The king told the seven officials who served before him to bring Queen Vashti before him with her royal crown. 
+To bring Vashti the queen before the king in a crown of royalty in order to show the people and the officials her beauty. 

est/01/12.md

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 # Why did the king become very angry?
 
-The king became very angry because Queen Vashti refused to come at the word of the king. 
+The queen Vashti refused to come at the word of the king that was by the hand of the eunuchs. 

est/01/13.md

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 # With whom did the king confer?
 
-The king conferred with the men who were known to be wise, who understood the times. 
+The wise men, who were knowers of the times. 

est/01/16.md

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 # According to Memucan, against whom did Vashti do wrong?
 
-Memucan said that not only against the king did Vashti the queen do wrong, but also against all the officials and all the people who are in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus. 
+Not toward the king alone has Vashti the queen done wrong, but toward all the officials and toward all the people who are in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus. 

est/01/17.md

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 # What did Memucan say the noble women of Persia and Media would do before the end of that very day?
 
-He said that before the end of that very day, the noble women would refuse the king's officials. 
+For the matter of the queen will go out to all the women, in order to make their husbands despised in their eyes when they say, 'The king Ahasuerus said to bring Vashti the queen before him, but she did not come.' Now this day, the noblewomen of Persia and Media who have heard the matter of the queen will speak to all the officials of the king; and there will be contempt and wrath enough!. 

est/01/18.md

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 # What did Memucan say the noble women of Persia and Media would do before the end of that very day?
 
-He said that before the end of that very day, the noble women would refuse the king's officials. 
+For the matter of the queen will go out to all the women, in order to make their husbands despised in their eyes when they say, 'The king Ahasuerus said to bring Vashti the queen before him, but she did not come.' Now this day, the noblewomen of Persia and Media who have heard the matter of the queen will speak to all the officials of the king; and there will be contempt and wrath enough!

est/01/19.md

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 # To whom would the king give Vashti's position as queen?
 
-The king would give Vashti's position as queen to another who was better than she was. 
+Her female neighbor, the woman who is better than she. 

est/01/22.md

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 # What did the king order?
 
-The king ordered that every man should be master of his own household. 
+That every man should be ruling in his house and speaking according to the tongue of his people.

est/02/02.md

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 # What did the king's young men recommend?
 
-Then the king's young men recommended a search be made on the king's behalf for beautiful young virgins. 
+Let them seek for the king young women who are virgins and pleasing of appearance. 

est/02/03.md

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 # Under whose care would the virgins be put?
 
-The virgins would be put under the care of Hegai, the king's official, who was in charge of the women. 
+Hegai, the eunuch of the king who is overseer of the women.

est/02/06.md

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-# Who had taken Mordecai from Jerusalem?
+# Who had taken Kish from Jerusalem?
 
-Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylonia had taken Mordecai away from Jerusalem. 
+Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon. 

est/02/07.md

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 # What was Esther's other name?
 
-Esther's other name was Hadassah. 
+Hadassah. 
 
 # How was Esther related to Mordecai?
 
-Esther was his uncle's daughter. 
+Esther was the daughter of his uncle. 

est/02/09.md

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 # With what did Hegai provide Esther?
 
-Hegai provided her with cosmetics and her portion of food, and he assigned to her seven servant girls from the king's palace. 
+Ointments, portions of food, and seven young women chosen from the house of the king. 

est/02/10.md

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 # Why had Esther not told anyone who her people or relatives were?
 
-Esther had not told anyone who her people or relatives were, for Mordecai had instructed her not to tell them. 
+Esther had not declared her people or her ancestry, for Mordecai had laid a charge upon her that she should not tell it. 

est/02/13.md

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 # When a young woman went to the king, what was given to her?
 
-When a young woman went to the king, whatever she desired was given to her. 
+Anything that she said would be given to her. 

est/02/14.md

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 # When would a girl return to the king?
 
-A girl would not return to the king again unless he had taken great pleasure in her and called for her again. 
+She would not go to the king again, unless the king had delighted in her and she was called by name. 

est/02/15.md

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 # For what did Esther ask?
 
-She did not ask for anything but what Hegai the king's official, who was in charge of the women, suggested to her. 
+She did not ask for anything except what Hegai, the eunuch of the king who was overseer of the women, said. 

est/02/16.md

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 # When was Esther taken to King Ahasuerus?
 
-Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus on the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign. 
+So Esther was taken to the king Ahasuerus, to the house of his royalty, in the tenth month (which is the month of Tebeth), in the seventh year of his reign. 

est/02/17.md

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 # Why did the king set the royal crown on Esther's head and make her queen?
 
-The king loved Esther more than all the other women, and she won favor and kindness before him, more than all the other virgins, so that he set the royal crown on her head and made her queen. 
+And the king loved Esther more than all the women and she lifted both favor and friendship before him more than all the virgins. So he set a crown of royalty on her head, and he made her queen instead of Vashti.

est/02/21.md

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 # What did Bigthan and Teresh seek to do to King Ahasuerus?
 
-Bigthan and Teresh sought to do harm to King Ahasuerus. 
+Bigthan and Teresh, two eunuchs of the king who were guardians of the doorway, became angry.  And they sought to stretch out a hand to the king Ahasuerus. 

est/02/23.md

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 # What happened to Bigthan and Teresh?
 
-Both the men were hanged from a gallows. 
+The two of them were hung on a tree. 

est/03/02.md

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 # Who knelt and prostrated themselves to Haman?
 
-All the king's servants who were at the king's gate always knelt and prostrated themselves to Haman. 
+Then all the servants of the king who were at the gate of the king were bowing down and prostrating themselves to Haman.

est/03/04.md

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 # What did Mordecai refuse to do?
 
-Mordecai refused to comply with demands of the king's servants. 
+Mordecai would neither bow down nor would he prostrate himself. 

est/03/06.md

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 # Who did Haman want to kill?
 
-Haman wanted to kill Mordecai as well as all the Jews. 
+Haman sought to annihilate all the Jews, the people of Mordecai, who were in all the kingdom of Ahasuerus. 

est/03/08.md

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 # When they threw lots, what month did they chose?
 
-When they threw lots, they chose the twelfth month (the month of Adar). 
+In the first month, which is the month of Nisan, in the twelfth year of the king Ahasuerus, a Pur (which is "the lot") was cast before the face of Haman from day to day and from month to month: the twelfth, which is the month of Adar. 

est/03/09.md

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 # How much money was Haman willing to put into the king's treasury if the king would give a command to kill the Jews?
 
-Haman was willing to put ten thousand talents of silver into the king's treasury if the king would give a command to kill the Jews. 
+10,000 talents of silver into the hands of the doers of the work, to bring into the treasuries of the king. 

est/03/13.md

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 # How were documents delivered to all the king's provinces?
 
-Documents were hand-delivered by couriers to all the king's provinces. 
+And letters were sent by the hand of runners to all of the provinces of the king. 

est/03/15.md

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 # How did Susa respond to the decree?
 
-The city of Susa was in turmoil. 
+The city of Susa was in confusion. 

est/04/02.md

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 # How far did Mordecai go? Why?
 
-He went up only as far as the king's gate, because no one was allowed to go through it clothed in sackcloth. 
+And he came only as far as before the face of the gate of the king, because no one was to come into the gate of the king while wearing sackcloth. 

est/04/04.md

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 # When Esther sent garments to clothe Mordecai, how did he respond?
 
-When she sent garments to clothe Mordecai, he would not accept them. 
+And she sent garments to clothe Mordecai and to take off his sackcloth from upon him, but he did not accept. 

est/04/07.md

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-# What did Mordecai report to Hathach?
+# What did Mordecai report to Hathak?
 
-Mordecai reported to him all that had happened to him, and the total amount of the silver that Haman had promised to weigh out and put into the king's treasuries in order to put the Jews to death. 
+And Mordecai reported to him all that had happened to him, and the exact amount of silver that Haman had said to weigh out into the treasuries of the king, against the Jews, to destroy them.

est/04/08.md

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-# Why did Mordecai give Hathach a copy of the decree that was issued in Susa for the Jews' destruction?
+# Why did Mordecai give Hathak a copy of the decree that was issued in Susa for the Jews' destruction?
 
-Mordecai did this so that Hathach could show it to Esther, and that Hathach should give her the responsibility of going to the king to beg for his favor, and to plead with him on behalf of her people. 
+Also he gave to him a copy of the writing of the law that had been given in Susa to annihilate them, in order to show Esther, and to inform her, and to lay a charge upon her to go to the king to implore his favor and to plead from before his face concerning her people. 

est/04/11.md

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 # What happened if any man or woman went to the king inside the inner courtyard without being summoned?
 
-If any man or woman went to the king inside the inner courtyard without being summoned, there was only one law: that he must be put to death—except for anyone to whom the king holds out the golden scepter so that he may live. 
+For any man or woman who goes to the king, to the inner court, who has not been called, his law is one: to cause to die; apart from when the king holds out to him the scepter of gold, then he will live.  

est/04/14.md

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 # What did Mordecai say would happen if Esther remained silent at that time?
 
-If Esther remained silent at that time, relief and rescue would rise up for the Jews from another place, but she and her father's house would perish. 
+For if you indeed remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and the house of your father will perish. 

est/04/16.md

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 # What did Esther tell Mordecai to do?
 
-Esther told Mordecai to gather together all the Jews who live in Susa, and to fast for her for three days. 
+Go, gather all the Jews who are found in Susa. And fast on account of me, neither eating nor drinking for three days, both night and day. Also, I myself and my young female attendants will fast likewise. Then, in such circumstances, I will go to the king, which is not according to the law; and if I perish, I perish. 

est/05/01.md

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 # Where was the inner courtyard of the king's palace?
 
-The inner courtyard of the king's palace was in front of the king's house. 
+Opposite to the house of the king. 

est/05/02.md

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 # When the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, why did he hold out to her the golden scepter?
 
-Esther won favor in his sight, so he held out to her the golden scepter in his hand. 
+As soon as the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, she lifted favor in his eyes. 

est/05/04.md

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 # What did Esther request from the king?
 
-She requested that the king and Haman come to a feast that she had prepared for him. 
+If it is good to the king, let the king come with Haman today to the banquet that I have made for him. 

est/05/08.md

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 # What did Esther request from the king the second time?
 
-She requested that the king and Haman come to a feast that she had prepared for them. 
+If I have found favor in the eyes of the king, and if it is good to the king to grant my petition and to perform my request, let the king come with Haman to the banquet which I will make for them, and tomorrow I will do according to the word of the king. 

est/05/11.md

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 # What did Haman recount to his family?
 
-Haman recounted to them the splendor of his riches and the number of his many sons, how he had advanced above all the officials and the servants of the king. 
+Then Haman recounted to them the glory of his wealth, and the multitude of his sons, and all about how the king had made him great and how he had lifted him over the officials and administrators of the king.

est/05/13.md

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-# Why did Haman feel that being invited to the banquets was worth nothing to him?
+# What did Haman feel was more important to him than being invited to the banquets?
 
-Being invited to the banquets was worth nothing to him as long as he saw Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate. 
+But all of this is not equal for me to every time that I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the gate of the king.

est/05/14.md

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 # What did Zeresh tell Haman to make? Why?
 
-Zereah told him to make a gallows fifty cubits high so that he could hang Mordecai on it. 
+Let them make a tree fifty cubits high. And in the morning speak to the king, and let them hang Mordecai on it.  

est/06/01.md

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 # Why did the king command servants to bring the records of the events of his reign?
 
-That night the king could not sleep, so he commanded servants to bring the records of the events of his reign. 
+That night the sleep of the king fled away. And he said to bring the book of records of the events of days. 

est/06/02.md

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-# What had been done to give honor or recognition to Mordecai for telling the king about Bigthana and Teresh?
+# What had been done to give honor or recognition to Mordecai for telling the king about Bigthan and Teresh?
 
-Nothing had been done to give honor or recognition to Mordecai for telling the king about Bigthana and Teresh. 
+Not a thing has been done with him. 

est/06/06.md

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 # When the king asked Haman what should be done for the man whom the king takes pleasure in honoring, about whom did Haman think the king was talking?
 
-When the king asked Haman what should be done for the man whom the king takes pleasure in honoring, Haman though the king was talking about Haman. 
+Then Haman said in his heart, "For whom would the king delight to do honor more than me?" 

est/06/09.md

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 # Who would dress the man whom the king takes pleasure in honoring, and lead him on the horse through the city streets?
 
-One of the king's most noble officials would dress the man whom the king takes pleasure in honoring, and lead him on the horse through the city streets. 
+A man from the most noble officials of the king. 

est/06/11.md

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 # Who dressed Mordecai and led him on the horse through the city streets?
 
-Haman dressed Mordecai and led him on the horse through the city streets. 
+So Haman took the garment and the horse, and he clothed Mordecai and paraded him in the open square of the city, and called out before his face, "Thus shall it be done for the man in whose honor the king is delighted!"

est/06/13.md

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 # About what did Haman's wise men and his wife warn him?
 
-His wise men and his wife said to him that if Mordecai was Jewish, Haman would not overcome him, but would certainly fall before him. 
+If Mordecai, before whose face you have begun to fall, is from the seed of the Jews, then you will not prevail against him, but you will surely fall before his face.

est/07/03.md

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-# What was Esther's request?
+# What did Esther ask from King Ahasuerus?
 
-She wanted her life and also at the lives of her people to be given to her 
+Let my life be given to me at my petition, and my people at my request. 

est/07/04.md

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 # What did Esther say she would have done if her people had only been sold into slavery?
 
-If her people had only been sold into slavery, she said she would have kept quiet. 
+Now if we had been sold as slaves and female servants, I would have kept silent, 

est/07/06.md

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-# Who did Esther describe as, "The hostile man, that enemy…"
+# Who did Esther describe as an "adversary" and "enemy?"
 
-This was Esther's description of Haman. 
+A man, an adversary, and an enemy is this evil Haman! 

est/07/07.md

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 # What did Haman do when the king got up in a rage from the wine-drinking?
 
-When the king got up in a rage from the wine-drinking, Haman stayed to beg for his life from Queen Esther. 
+But Haman remained in order to seek for his life from Esther the queen. 

est/07/08.md

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 # After Haman fell on the couch where Esther was, what did the king think Haman was doing?
 
-After Haman fell on the couch where Esther was, the king thought he was assaulting the queen in the king's presence. 
+Is it also to subdue the queen with me, in the house? 

est/07/09.md

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 # Where did the king say to hang Haman?
 
-The king said to hang Haman and his family on the gallows Haman set up for Mordecai. 
+The tree that Haman made for Mordecai…standing at the house of Haman fifty cubits high.

est/08/01.md

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 # Why did Mordecai begin to serve before the king?
 
-Mordecai began to serve before the king, for Esther told the king how Mordecai was related to her. 
+And Mordecai came before the face of the king, because Esther told what he was to her.

est/08/02.md

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 # Why was Mordecai in charge of Haman's estate?
 
-Esther designated Mordecai to be in charge of Haman's estate. 
+And Esther placed Mordecai over the house of Haman. 

est/08/04.md

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 # What did the king do so that Esther could arise and stand before him?
 
-The king held out the golden scepter to Esther; so she arose and stood before the king. 
+And the king held out to Esther the scepter of gold, so Esther rose up and stood before the face of the king. 

est/08/05.md

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 # What letters did Haman write?
 
-Haman wrote the letters about destroying the Jews who were in all the king's provinces. 
+The letters, the plot of Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all of the provinces of the king. 

est/08/08.md

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 # Why did Esther need to write another decree for the Jews in the name of the king?
 
-Esther needed to write another decree for the Jews in the name of the king, for the first decree that had already been written in the king's name and sealed with the king's ring could not be revoked. 
+So you write for the Jews as is good in your eyes in the name of the king, and seal it with the signet ring of the king. For there is none to take back a writing that has been written in the name of the king and has been sealed with the signet ring of the king.

est/08/09.md

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 # When were the king's scribes called?
 
-The king's scribes were called in the third month, which is the month Sivan, on the twenty-third day of the month. 
+So the scribes of the king were called at that time, in the third month, which is the month of Sivan, on the twenty-third of it.

est/08/11.md

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 # What did the king give the Jews permission to do?
 
-The king gave the Jews permission to gather together and to make a stand to protect their lives; to kill, and to destroy any armed force from any people or province that might attack them, children and women included, or to plunder their possessions. 
+The king gave to the Jews who were in every city by city: to gather and to stand for their life, to annihiliate, and to slaughter, and to destroy any strength of a people or province that would attack them, children and women, and plunder their spoil.

est/08/17.md

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 # Why did many from among the variety of peoples of the land become Jews?
 
-Many from among the variety of peoples of the land became Jews, because the fear of the Jews had fallen on them. 
+And many from the peoples of the land became Jews, because dread of the Jews had fallen upon them.

est/09/02.md

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 # Why could no one stand against the Jews?
 
-No one could stand against the Jews, for the fear of them had fallen on all the peoples. 
+But a man did not stand to their face, for sudden fear of them had fallen on all the peoples.

est/09/05.md

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 # What did the Jews do to their enemies?
 
-The Jews attacked their enemies with the sword, killing and destroying them, and did as they pleased to those who hated them. 
+And the Jews struck to all their enemies a strike of sword, and slaughter, and destruction; and they did to those who hated them according to their pleasure. 

est/09/12.md

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 # Who did the Jews kill?
 
-The Jews killed five hundred men in the city of Susa, including the ten sons of Haman. 
+In Susa the citadel the Jews have slaughtered and destroyed five hundred men, with the ten sons of Haman.

est/09/13.md

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 # What happened to the bodies of Haman's ten sons?
 
-The bodies of Haman's ten sons were hanged on gallows. 
+"Let the ten sons of Haman hang on the tree." And the king said for this to be done. And a law was given in Susa, and they hanged the ten sons of Haman.

est/09/15.md

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 # How many men did the Jews kill on the fourteenth day of the month Adar?
 
-On the fourteenth day of the month Adar, the Jews killed three hundred more men in Susa. 
+So the Jews who were in Susa assembled themselves also on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, and they killed three hundred men in Susa.

est/09/17.md

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 # Why do the Jews of the villages observe the fourteenth day of the month Adar as a day of gladness and feasting?
 
-The Jews of the villages observe the fourteenth day of the month Adar as a day of gladness and feasting because stopped killing, and they rested and made that a day of feasting and gladness. 
+On the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, then they rested. On the fourteenth of it, then they made it a day of feasting and rejoicing. 

est/09/18.md

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-# Why do the Jews of the villages observe the fourteenth day of the month Adar as a day of gladness and feasting?
+# Why do the Jews in Susa observe the fifteenth day of the month Adar as a day of gladness and feasting?
 
-The Jews of the villages observe the fourteenth day of the month Adar as a day of gladness and feasting because stopped killing, and they rested and made that a day of feasting and gladness. 
+But the Jews who were in Susa assembled themselves on the thirteenth of it and on the fourteenth of it. And they rested on the fifteenth of it, and they made it a day of feasting and rejoicing. 

est/09/19.md

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 # Why do the Jews of the villages observe the fourteenth day of the month Adar as a day of gladness and feasting?
 
-The Jews of the villages observe the fourteenth day of the month Adar as a day of gladness and feasting because stopped killing, and they rested and made that a day of feasting and gladness. 
+Therefore, the Jews, the ones of the open country, the ones who dwell in the cities of the open areas, make the fourteenth day of the month of Adar for rejoicing and for feasting and a good day.

est/09/20.md

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 # How often did Mordecai obligate the Jews to keep the fourteenth and the fifteenth day of Adar?
 
-Mordecai obligated them to keep the fourteenth and the fifteenth day of Adar every year. 
+And he sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, the near ones and the far ones, to set up for them to be making the fourteenth day of the month of Adar and the fifteenth day of it, every year by year,

est/09/21.md

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 # How often did Mordecai obligate the Jews to keep the fourteenth and the fifteenth day of Adar?
 
-Mordecai obligated them to keep the fourteenth and the fifteenth day of Adar every year. 
+And he sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, the near ones and the far ones, 21 to set up for them to be making the fourteenth day of the month of Adar and the fifteenth day of it, every year by year. 

est/09/24.md

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 # What does Pur mean?
 
-Pur means 'lots'. 
+He had cast a Pur (which is "the lot").

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 # Why would the Jews and their descendants never cease to faithfully observe these days of Purim?
 
-The Jews and their descendants would never cease to faithfully observe these days of Purim, so that they would never forget them. 
+So these days are remembered and are made in every generation by generation, family by family, province by province, and city by city. And these days of Purim will not pass away from the midst of the Jews, and their remembrance will not come to an end from their seed.

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 # Where did King Ahasuerus impose a tax?
 
-King Ahasuerus imposed a tax on the land and on the coast lands along the sea. 
+Then the king Ahasuerus set a tribute on the land and the islands of the sea.

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 # Where were all the achievements of King Ahasuerus' power and might written?
 
-All the achievements of his power and might were written in The Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Media and Persia. 
+And all the deeds of his power and his might, with the full account of the greatness of Mordecai to which the king had made him great, are they not written in the book of the events of days for the kings of Media and Persia?

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 # What was the rank of Mordecai the Jew?
 
-Mordecai the Jew was second in rank to King Ahasuerus. 
+For Mordecai the Jew was second to the King Ahasuerus. 
 
 # Why was Mordecai great among the Jews and popular with his many Jewish brothers?
 
-He was great among the Jews and popular with his many Jewish brothers, for he sought the welfare of his people, and he spoke for the peace of all his people. 
+For Mordecai the Jew was second to the King Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and favored by the multitude of his brothers, seeking good for his people and speaking peace to all its seed.