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Esther 8:9 (NET)
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9 The king's scribes were quickly summoned in the third month (that is, the month of Sivan), on the twenty-third day. They wrote out everything that Mordecai instructed to the Jews and to the satraps and the governors and the officials of the provinces all the way from India to Ethiopia a hundred and twenty-seven provinces in all to each province in its own script and to each people in their own language, and to the Jews according to their own script and their own language.
Definition(s):
Ethiopia (Ee-thee-oh-pi-a): blackness; heat
Mordecai (Mor-dek-eye): contrition; bitter; bruising
