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1

The Persian King Xerxes held a banquet, and his Queen Vashti refused to come

2a

The king decided to find a new wife, and Esther was chosen to be the new queen

2b

Esther's uncle Mordecai stopped a plot by two men to kill the King

3

Mordecai refused to bow down to Haman, so as revenge, Haman tricked the king in issuing a death degree against all Jews

4

Mordecai asks for Queen Esther's help in stopping the death decree against the Jews

5

Esther asks the king to come to a banquet with her and Haman

6

King Xerxes reads how Mordecai how saved him from an assassination plot, so he instructs Haman to publicly honor Mordecai

7

Esther exposes the treachery of Haman at the king's banquet, so Haman is hanged on the gallows he had built to kill Mordecai

8a

Everything that used to below to Haman was now given to Mordecai

8b

The king allows Esther to write a decree that counter-acted the death decree, so the Jews escaped genocide and triumphed over their enemies

9a

The enemies of the Jews were struck down on the day of the death decree

9b

There was a great celebration and giving of presents among the Jews, which is called Purim

10

Mordecai became Vice President of Persia and he caused the kingdom to prosper and the Jews to live in peace