Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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Chap. III.
Aman aduanced by the king, is much offended that Mardocheus doth not
adore him. 6. and therfore procureth the kings decree, to destroy the whole
nation of Iewes.
1 After these things king Assuerus aduanced Aman the
sonne of Amadathi, which was of the stocke of Agag:
& he put his throne aboue al the princes which he had. note
2 And
al the kings seruantes, that were in the doores of his pallace,
bowed their knees, and adored Aman: for so the emperour
had commanded them, note onlie Mardocheus did not bowe his
knee, nor adore him.
3 To whom the kings seruantes, that
were chiefe at the doores of the pallace, said: Why doest thou
aboue the rest not obserue the kings commandment.
4 And
when they said this often, and he would not heare, they told
Aman, desirous to know whether he would perseuere in his
sentence: for he had told them that he was a Iew.
5 Which
when Aman had heard, and had proued by experience that
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Mardocheus bowed not his knee vnto him, nor adored him,
he was angrie excedingly.
6 And he counted it a matter of nothing
to lay his handes vpon Mardocheus alone: for he had
heard that he was of the nation of the Iewes, and he would
rather destroy al the nation of the Iewes, that were in the
kingdom of Assuerus.
7 The first moneth (which is called
Nisan) in the twelfth yeare of the reigne of Assuerus, the lot
was cast into a potte which in Hebrew is called Phut, before
Aman, note in what day and what moneth the nation of the
Iewes should be slayne: and there came forth the twelfth
moneth, which is called Adar.
8 And Aman said to king Assuerus:
There is a people dispersed through al the prouinces
of thy kingdom, and separated one from an other, vsing new
lawes and ceremonies, moreouer also contemning the kings
ordinances: And thou knowest very wel that it is not expedient
for thy kingdom that they waxe insolent by libertie.
9 If it please thee, decree that they may perish, and I wil pay
ten thousand talentes to the cofferers of thy treasure. note
10 The
king therfore tooke the ring that he vsed, from his hand, and
gaue it to Aman the sonne of Amadathi of the progenie of
Agag, the enemie of the Iewes,
11 and he said to him: The
siluer which thou doest promise, be it thine: but concerning
the people doe that which pleaseth thee.
12 And the kings
scribes were called in the first moneth, Nisan, the thirtenth
day of the same moneth: and there was written, as Aman had
commanded, to al the kings lieuftenantes, and iudges of the
prouinces, and of diuers nations, as euerie nation could read,
and heare according to the varietie of languages, in the name
of king Assuerus: and the letters signed with his ring,
13 were
sent by the kings postes to al prouinces, that they should kil
and destroy al the Iewes, from boy vnto old man, children,
and wemen, in one day, that is, in the thirtenth of the twelfh
monerh, which is called Adar, and should spoyle them of
their goodes. note
14 And note the content of the letters was this, that al prouinces
might know, & prepare them selues against the day afore sayd. note
15 The postes that were sent, made hast to fulfil the kings c&obar;mandment.
And immediatly the edict hong in Susan, the
king and Aman feasting, and al the Iewes that were in the
citie, weeping.
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Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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