And Memucan answered before the king and the princes, Vashti the queen has not done wrong to the king only, but also to all the princes, and to all the people that are in all the provinces of king Ahasuerus.

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

Mamuchan. Old Vulgate, "Mardochæus. "Yet the Jews say this was the infamous Aman; and one Greek copy has Bilgaios, (Calmet) and Arabo, "Mouchaios "chap. iii. 1., and xii. 6. He was the youngest, but spoke first, as was sometimes the case.

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