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If then it seems good to the king, let him make a royal decree, and let it be written according to the laws of the Medes and Persians, and let him not alter it: ‘Don’t allow the queen to come in to him any more. Let the king give her royalty to a woman better than she.’
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Verse 19. Altered. This regarded the more solemn acts, signed by the counsellors. Daniel 6:17. Grotius.—Some decrees were neglected or changed. Calmet. 8:9. 1 Ezra 4:5. 21 and 6:1. Calmet.
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