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Esther 2:4-6 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

4. Then let the young lady who pleases the king be queen in place of Vashti." And the matter pleased the king, and he did accordingly.

5. Now there was at the citadel in Susa a Jew whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite,

6. who had been taken into exile from Jerusalem with the captives who had been exiled with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had exiled.

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