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additions-to-esther 12, RSV

12:1 Now Mordecai took his rest in the courtyard with Gabatha and Tharra, the two eunuchs of the king who kept watch in the courtyard.

12:2 He overheard their conversation and inquired into their purposes, and learned that they were preparing to lay hands upon Artaxerxes the king; and he informed the king concerning them.

12:3 Then the king examined the two eunuchs, and when they confessed they were led to execution.

12:4 The king made a permanent record of these things, and Mordecai wrote an account of them.

12:5 And the king ordered Mordecai to serve in the court and rewarded him for these things.

12:6 But Haman, the son of Hammedatha, a Bougaean, was in great honor with the king, and he sought to injure Mordecai and his people because of the two eunuchs of the king.

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