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Ester
Capitolo 2
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Depois destas coisas, quando a ira do rei Assuero se apaziguou, ele se lembrou de Vasti, do que ela havia feito e do que fora decretado contra ela.
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Então os servos do rei que o serviam disseram: “Que se busquem belas jovens virgens para o rei.
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Que o rei nomeie oficiais em todas as províncias do seu reino, para que reúnam todas as belas jovens virgens na cidadela de Susã, na casa das mulheres, sob a custódia de Hegai, o eunuco do rei, guarda das mulheres. Que lhes sejam dados cosméticos;
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e que a jovem que agradar ao rei seja rainha em lugar de Vasti.” Isso agradou ao rei, e ele assim o fez.
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Havia um certo judeu na cidadela de Susã cujo nome era Mardoqueu, filho de Jair, filho de Simei, filho de Quis, um benjamita,
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que havia sido levado de Jerusalém com os cativos que foram exilados com Jeconias, rei de Judá, a quem Nabucodonosor, rei da Babilônia, havia levado.
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Ele criou Hadassa, isto é, Ester, filha de seu tio; pois ela não tinha pai nem mãe. A jovem era de bela aparência e formosa; e quando seu pai e sua mãe morreram, Mardoqueu a tomou como sua própria filha.
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Assim, quando o mandamento do rei e o seu decreto foram ouvidos, e quando muitas jovens foram reunidas na cidadela de Susã, sob a custódia de Hegai, Ester foi levada para a casa do rei, sob a custódia de Hegai, guarda das mulheres.
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A jovem lhe agradou, e obteve o seu favor. Ele rapidamente lhe deu cosméticos e suas porções de comida, e as sete jovens escolhidas que lhe deviam ser dadas da casa do rei. Ele a transferiu, junto com suas jovens, para o melhor lugar na casa das mulheres.
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Ester não havia revelado o seu povo nem a sua parentela, porque Mardoqueu a havia instruído para que não o revelasse.
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Mardoqueu caminhava todos os dias em frente ao pátio da casa das mulheres, para saber como Ester estava e o que seria dela.
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Chegava a vez de cada jovem ir ao rei Assuero após a sua purificação de doze meses (pois assim se cumpriam os dias da purificação delas: seis meses com óleo de mirra, e seis meses com perfumes e com preparações para o embelezamento das mulheres).
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A jovem então ia ao rei desta maneira: tudo o que ela desejava lhe era dado para ir com ela da casa das mulheres para a casa do rei.
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À tarde ela ia, e no dia seguinte retornava para a segunda casa das mulheres, sob a custódia de Saasgaz, o eunuco do rei, que guardava as concubinas. Ela não ia mais ao rei, a menos que o rei se agradasse dela e ela fosse chamada pelo nome.
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Ora, quando chegou a vez de Ester, filha de Abiail, tio de Mardoqueu, que a havia tomado por filha, de ir ao rei, ela não pediu nada além do que Hegai, o eunuco do rei, o guarda das mulheres, aconselhou. Ester obteve favor aos olhos de todos os que olhavam para ela.
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Assim, Ester foi levada ao rei Assuero, à sua casa real, no décimo mês, que é o mês de tebete, no sétimo ano do seu reinado.
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O rei amou Ester mais do que a todas as mulheres, e ela obteve favor e bondade diante dele mais do que todas as virgens; de modo que ele colocou a coroa real na cabeça dela e a fez rainha em lugar de Vasti.
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Então o rei deu um grande banquete para todos os seus príncipes e seus servos, o banquete de Ester; e ele proclamou um feriado nas províncias, e deu presentes de acordo com a generosidade do rei.
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Quando as virgens foram reunidas pela segunda vez, Mardoqueu estava sentado à porta do rei.
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Ester ainda não havia revelado a sua parentela nem o seu povo, como Mardoqueu lhe havia ordenado; pois Ester obedecia a Mardoqueu, como fazia quando era criada por ele.
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Naqueles dias, enquanto Mardoqueu estava sentado à porta do rei, dois dos eunucos do rei, Bigtã e Teres, que eram guardas da porta, ficaram irados e procuraram pôr as mãos no rei Assuero.
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Isso chegou ao conhecimento de Mardoqueu, que informou a rainha Ester; e Ester informou o rei em nome de Mardoqueu.
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Quando este assunto foi investigado e se descobriu ser verdade, ambos foram pendurados numa forca; e isso foi escrito no livro das crônicas na presença do rei.
Esther
Capitolo 2
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After these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.
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Then said the king’s servants that ministered unto him, Let there be fair young virgins sought for the king:
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And let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the fair young virgins unto Shushan the palace, to the house of the women, unto the custody of Hege the king’s chamberlain, keeper of the women; and let their things for purification be given them:
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And let the maiden which pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti. And the thing pleased the king; and he did so.
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¶ Now in Shushan the palace there was a certain Jew, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite;
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Who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captivity which had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.
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And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.
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¶ So it came to pass, when the king’s commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together unto Shushan the palace, to the custody of Hegai, that Esther was brought also unto the king’s house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women.
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And the maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness of him; and he speedily gave her her things for purification, with such things as belonged to her, and seven maidens, which were meet to be given her, out of the king’s house: and he preferred her and her maids unto the best place of the house of the women.
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Esther had not shewed her people nor her kindred: for Mordecai had charged her that she should not shew it.
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And Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women’s house, to know how Esther did, and what should become of her.
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¶ Now when every maid’s turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the women, (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odours, and with other things for the purifying of the women;)
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Then thus came every maiden unto the king; whatsoever she desired was given her to go with her out of the house of the women unto the king’s house.
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In the evening she went, and on the morrow she returned into the second house of the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king’s chamberlain, which kept the concubines: she came in unto the king no more, except the king delighted in her, and that she were called by name.
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¶ Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king’s chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked upon her.
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So Esther was taken unto king Ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.
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And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.
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Then the king made a great feast unto all his princes and his servants, even Esther’s feast; and he made a release to the provinces, and gave gifts, according to the state of the king.
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And when the virgins were gathered together the second time, then Mordecai sat in the king’s gate.
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Esther had not yet shewed her kindred nor her people; as Mordecai had charged her: for Esther did the commandment of Mordecai, like as when she was brought up with him.
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¶ In those days, while Mordecai sat in the king’s gate, two of the king’s chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those which kept the door, were wroth, and sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus.
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And the thing was known to Mordecai, who told it unto Esther the queen; and Esther certified the king thereof in Mordecai’s name.
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And when inquisition was made of the matter, it was found out; therefore they were both hanged on a tree: and it was written in the book of the chronicles before the king.