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and I answered the king, "If it pleases the king and if your servant has found favor in his sight, let him send me to the city in Judah where my fathers are buried so that I can rebuild it."

I also said to him, "If it pleases the king, may I have letters to the governors of Trans-Euphrates, so that they will provide me safe-conduct until I arrive in Judah?

He had been hired to intimidate me so that I would commit a sin by doing this, and then they would give me a bad name to discredit me.

They read from the Book of the Law of God, making it clear and giving the meaning so that the people could understand what was being read.

You divided the sea before them, so that they passed through it on dry ground, but you hurled their pursuers into the depths, like a stone into mighty waters.

"But as soon as they were at rest, they again did what was evil in your sight. Then you abandoned them to the hand of their enemies so that they ruled over them. And when they cried out to you again, you heard from heaven, and in your compassion you delivered them time after time.

Didn't your forefathers do the same things, so that our God brought all this calamity upon us and upon this city? Now you are stirring up more wrath against Israel by desecrating the Sabbath."

When evening shadows fell on the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath, I ordered the doors to be shut and not opened until the Sabbath was over. I stationed some of my own men at the gates so that no load could be brought in on the Sabbath day.

"Bring Haman at once," the king said, "so that we may do what Esther asks." So the king and Haman went to the banquet Esther had prepared.

A copy of the text of the edict was to be issued as law in every province and made known to the people of every nationality so that the Jews would be ready on that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.

"Have you not put a hedge around him and his household and everything he has? You have blessed the work of his hands, so that his flocks and herds are spread throughout the land.

Are not the cords of their tent pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?'

He thwarts the plans of the crafty, so that their hands achieve no success.

so that I prefer strangling and death, rather than this body of mine.

you would plunge me into a slime pit so that even my clothes would detest me.

someone to remove God's rod from me, so that his terror would frighten me no more.

so that you vent your rage against God and pour out such words from your mouth?

It is said, 'God stores up a man's punishment for his sons.' Let him repay the man himself, so that he will know it!

"Yet they are foam on the surface of the water; their portion of the land is cursed, so that no one goes to the vineyards.

so that my heart was secretly enticed and my hand offered them a kiss of homage,