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The king loved Esther more than all the women, and she found favor and kindness with him more than all the virgins, so that ^(C1)he set the royal turban on her head and made her queen in place of Vashti.

Then ^(C1)the king held a great banquet, Esther's banquet, for all his officials and his servants; he also made a holiday for the provinces and gave gifts ^(C2)in proportion to the king's bounty.

^(C1)Now when the virgins were gathered together for the second time, then Mordecai ^(C2)was sitting at the king's gate.

^(C1)Esther still had not revealed her relatives or her people, just as Mordecai had instructed her; for Esther did ^(F1)what Mordecai told her just as she had ^(C2)when under his care.