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- It happened in the days of Ahasuerus, that Ahasuerus that was king over a hundred and twenty-seven folkshires from India to Nubia
- In those days, when King Ahasuerus wielded the kingseat in the stronghold of Shushan
- In the third year of his Kingship, he gave a guestmeal for all the reeves and hoflings - The shiredom of Persia and Media, the athels and the leaders of the shires before him.
- For no fewer than a hundred and eighty days he showed the great riches of his kingdom and the great wulder of his loftiness
- At the end of this timespan, the king held a feed for all the folk who were at the hall [of] Shushan, both unto the highfolk and the lowfolk for seven days in the hof of the wortton of the kingshouse.
- [There were hangings of] White cotton and blue wool, held up by ropes of fine white linen and bluered wool to silver rods and shinestone (marble) uprights; [and there were] bedseats of gold and silver on a floor of shinestone, alabaster, pearlmother, and shardbilths.
- Lots of Kingly wine was given out in golden beakers and beakers of many kinds, as would befit a king
- And the law for drinking was “No Fetters!” For the king had bespoke to all housestewards to do as what each man wished
- Furthermore, Queen Vashti held a feed for the women in the kingshouse of King Ahasuerus
- On the seventh day, when the king was merry with wine, he behested Mehuman, Bizzetha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven gelded-reeves that hearkened before King Ahasuerus
- To bring Queen Vashti before the king wearing a queenly headband to show her comeliness to the folk and the stewards, for she was a comely woman
- But Queen Vashti forbore to come at the king’s behest as told by the reeves, and the king became very wroth, his anger burned within him
- Then, the king asked of the wisemen who knew the forsetting, for it was the wont of the king to [ask for help] from folk who are knowledged in law and deemship
- His closest redegivers were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven sheriffs of Persia and Media who could come before the king at hand and who sat first in the kingdom.
- “As of the law, What shall be done to Queen Vashti for not doing what was behest of her by King Ahasuerus as told by the reeves?”
- Thereupon, Memucan said before the king and the sheriffs “Not only has Queen Vashti done wrong to the King, but also to all the Sheriffs and all the folk in all the folkshires of King Ahasuerus"
- “For the queen’s behaving will make all women loathe their husbands in their eyes, as to show that King Ahasuerus himself behested of the Queen to be brought before him, yet she did not come.”