But Abram said to Sarai, Behold, your maid is in your hand; do to her as is good in your eyes. And when Sarai dealt harshly with her, she fled from her presence.

And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before you; dwell where it pleases you.

And their words pleased Hamor and Shechem, Hamor's son.

Now therefore, let Pharaoh look for a discerning and wise man, and set him over the land of Egypt.

who went in the way before you to search out a place for you to encamp, to show you the way you should go, in the fire by night and in the cloud by day.

And all the people took note of it, and it was good in their eyes, even as whatever the king had done was good in the eyes of all the people.

And the matter was right in the eyes of the king and all the assembly.

And the words pleased the king and the rulers, and the king did according to the word of Memucan.

Then let the young woman who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti. And the thing pleased the king, and he did so.

Then his wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, Let a gallows be made, fifty cubits high, and in the morning suggest to the king that Mordecai be hanged on it; then go joyfully with the king to the banquet. And these words were good to Haman; so he had the gallows made.

And the saying pleased the whole multitude. And they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit, and Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas, a proselyte from Antioch,