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Instead of that, I am still asking thee for a favour; that thou wouldst journey on to Rages in Media, with what beasts, what retinue thou wilt, and seek out Gabelus there. Give him back his bond, recover the debt, and bid him to my wedding-feast. (Tobit 9, 3)
Then he recounted to him the younger Tobias’ history, and brought him back to take part in the wedding-feast. (Tobit 9, 7)
And now Ozias, dismissing the assembly, bade Achior to his house and made a great feast for him; (Judith 6, 19)
Laid aside, now, her widow’s weeds; festal her array must be; a feast waits for the sons of Israel. (Judith 16, 9)
It was now the third year of his reign, and he held high feast for all his lords and vassals; Persian warriors, Median notables, and the governor of every province, were his guests. (Esther 1, 3)
And he had a great feast prepared for all his lords and vassals, Esther’s bridal feast. To all his dominions he granted a public holiday, and made them gifts, with princely liberality, besides. (Esther 2, 18)
My lord king, she answered, do me the honour of dining with me to-day; I have a feast prepared; and bring Aman with thee. (Esther 5, 4)
The king, without more ado, had Aman summoned to wait, there and then, on Esther’s pleasure; and both of them went to the feast she had prepared. (Esther 5, 5)
But they had a remedy for this, his wife Zares and those friends of his. Have a gallows made, fifty cubits high, so that tomorrow thou canst bid the king have Mardochaeus hanged on it. Then thou mayst go light-hearted enough, to feast with the king. This counsel Aman liked well, and he gave his men orders to have a high gallows in readiness. (Esther 5, 14)
And even as they spoke, in came the royal chamberlains, and hurried him off to the feast the queen had prepared for him. (Esther 6, 14)
Everywhere it was on the thirteenth of Adar they began laying about them, and next day they slew no more; so it was this day, the fourteenth, they made into a holiday, to be observed thenceforward with feast, and rejoicing, and carousal. (Esther 9, 17)
This feast has ever been known as the feast of Purim, because of Aman’s lot-taking. Here in this letter, nay, this book you have been reading, the whole story has been set out, deeds done, (Esther 9, 26)
