And let the king appoint local governors in all the provinces of his kingdom, and let them select fair [and] chaste young women, [and bring them] to the city Susa, into the women's apartment, and let them be consigned to the king's eunuch, the keeper of the women. And let things for purification and other attendance be given [to them].

And let the woman who shall please the king be queen instead of Vashti. And the thing pleased the king; and he did so.

And two of the king's eunuchs, the chiefs of the bodyguard, were grieved, because Mordecai was promoted; and they sought to kill King Artaxerxes.

And everyone in the palace bowed down to him, for so the king had given orders to do; but Mordecai did not bow down to him.

And those in the king's palace said to Mordecai, Mordecai, why do you transgress the commands of the king?

But these things please me not, while I see Mordecai the Jew in the court.