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-\v 1 When Mordecai found out about those letters, he was so anguished that he tore his clothes and put on the clothes of mourning—rough sackcloth— and he sat in ashes, to show his distress. Then he went into the city, crying very loudly with bitterness and sorrow.
+\v 1 When Mordecai found out about those letters, he was so anguished that he tore his clothes and put on the clothes of mourning—rough sackcloth—and he sat in ashes, to show his distress. Then he went into the city, crying very loudly with bitterness and sorrow.
 \v 2 He stood outside the king's gate. He was not allowed to enter the palace because the law forbade anyone dressed in sackcloth to be admitted through the king's gate.
 \v 3 In every province of the empire, when the letter from the king was read to the Jewish people, they cried and mourned. They fasted, wailed loudly, and were filled with sorrow. Many of them lay down on sackcloth that was covered with ashes.