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Mordecai Refuses to Do Obeisance

After these events King Artaxerxes promoted Haman son of Hammedatha, a Bougean, advancing him and granting him precedence over all the king’s[a] Friends. So all who were at court used to do obeisance to Haman,[b] for so the king had commanded to be done. Mordecai, however, did not do obeisance.

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  1. Greek Esther 3:1 Gk all his
  2. Greek Esther 3:2 Gk him

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