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Memucan answers before the king and the princes and counsels a royal commandment concerning Vashti

므무간이 왕과 방백 앞에서 대답하여 와스디에 대한 조서를 내리기를 청함

Esther 1:16–20: Memucan answers before the king and the princes, “Vashti the queen has not done wrong to just the king, but also to all the princes, and to all the people who are in all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus. For this deed of the queen will become known to all women, causing them to show contempt for their husbands when it is reported, ‘King Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she didn’t come.’ Today, the princesses of Persia and Media who have heard of the queen’s deed will tell all the king’s princes. This will cause much contempt and wrath. If it pleases the king, let a royal commandment go from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, so that it cannot be altered, that Vashti may never again come before King Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate to another who is better than she. When the king’s decree which he shall make is published throughout all his kingdom for it is great, all the wives will give their husbands honor, both great and small.” WEB sets “for it is great” in parentheses. The Korean Revised Version reports the saying of 1:17 without a quotation (아하수에로왕이 명하여 왕후 와스디를 청하여도 오지 아니하였다 하는 왕후의 행위의 소문, the report of the queen’s deed, that King Ahasuerus commanded and called Vashti the queen and she did not come), reads 바사와 메대의 법률 (the laws of Persia and Media) at 1:19, and reads 왕 앞에 (before the king) there, where WEB names King Ahasuerus.

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EST 1:16–20, engwebp
¹⁶Memucan answered before the king and the princes, “Vashti the queen has not done wrong to just the king, but also to all the princes, and to all the people who are in all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus.
¹⁷For this deed of the queen will become known to all women, causing them to show contempt for their husbands when it is reported, ‘King Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she didn’t come.’
¹⁸Today, the princesses of Persia and Media who have heard of the queen’s deed will tell all the king’s princes. This will cause much contempt and wrath.
¹⁹“If it pleases the king, let a royal commandment go from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, so that it cannot be altered, that Vashti may never again come before King Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate to another who is better than she.
²⁰When the king’s decree which he shall make is published throughout all his kingdom (for it is great), all the wives will give their husbands honor, both great and small.”
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Evidence: Esther 1:16–20

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Entry: Memucan answers before the king and the princes and counsels a royal commandment concerning Vashti (event-est-1-memucans-counsel-before-the-king-and-the-princes)
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Current wording: Esther 1:16–20: Memucan answers before the king and the princes, “Vashti the queen has not done wrong to just the king, but also to all the princes, and to all the people who are in all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus. For this deed of the queen will become known to all women, causing them to show contempt for their husbands when it is reported, ‘King Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she didn’t come.’ Today, the princesses of Persia and Media who have heard of the queen’s deed will tell all the king’s princes. This will cause much contempt and wrath. If it pleases the king, let a royal commandment go from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, so that it cannot be altered, that Vashti may never again come before King Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate to another who is better than she. When the king’s decree which he shall make is published throughout all his kingdom for it is great, all the wives will give their husbands honor, both great and small.” WEB sets “for it is great” in parentheses. The Korean Revised Version reports the saying of 1:17 without a quotation (아하수에로왕이 명하여 왕후 와스디를 청하여도 오지 아니하였다 하는 왕후의 행위의 소문, the report of the queen’s deed, that King Ahasuerus commanded and called Vashti the queen and she did not come), reads 바사와 메대의 법률 (the laws of Persia and Media) at 1:19, and reads 왕 앞에 (before the king) there, where WEB names King Ahasuerus.
Cited evidence: EST 1:16–20, engwebp
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