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And I sent a messenger to them, saying, I am doing a great work so that I cannot come down, lest the work cease, while I leave it and come down to you.

Therefore he was hired, that I should be afraid and do so and sin, so that I might become to them an evil report, that they might reproach me.

So they read in the book of the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, so that they understood the reading thereof.

And thou didst open a passage in the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou didst throw into the depths of the sea, as a stone that sinks in the mighty waters.

But after they had rest, they did evil again before thee; therefore thou didst leave them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had dominion over them; yet when they returned and prayed before thee, thou didst hear them from heaven; and many times didst thou save them according to thy great mercies.

Also that day they offered great sacrifices and rejoiced; for the LORD had made them rejoice with great joy; the wives also and the children rejoiced; so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off.

For this deed of the queen shall reach all women, so that their husbands shall be despised in their eyes, and they shall say, King Akhshirash commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she did not come.

And the king loved Esther more than all the other women, and she obtained grace and favor in his sight more than all the other virgins; so that he set the royal crown upon her head and made her queen instead of Vashti.

NOW in the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the time drew near for the kings decree and his commandment to be put into execution, in the day when the enemies of the Jews hoped to overpower them (though the edict was turned to the contrary so that the Jews should have rule over those that hated them),

His substance was seven thousand sheep and three thousand camels and five hundred yoke of oxen and five hundred she-asses and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the East.

He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot wisely perform their enterprise.

So that God would hearken to cleanse me, and to spread out his hand and make me whole;

And to be again my comfort, so that I may be restored to my strength without measure; for I have not lied against the words of the Holy One.

So that though your beginning was small he would make your end very great.

He has fenced up my ways so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness in my paths.

Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that men cannot see him; and he walks upon the circle of the heaven.

But as for you, I will deliver you into the hand of God; so that your works may not be hid from him.

His wrath also kindled against his three friends, because they had found no answer to Job so that they might condemn him.

So that you could not say, We have found wisdom. God has smitten him, not man.

I will speak so that I may find relief; I will open my lips and answer.