19 If it please the king, let a royal order go out from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes ^hso that it may not be repealed, that Vashti is never again to come before King Ahasuerus. And let the king give her royal position to another who is better than she.

8 But you may write as you please with regard to the Jews, in the name of the king, and ^qseal it with the king’s ring, for an edict written in the name of the king and sealed with the king’s ring ^rcannot be revoked.”

12 Then they came near and said before the king, concerning the injunction, “O king! ^yDid you not sign an injunction, that anyone who makes petition to any god or man within thirty days except to you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions?” The king answered and said, “The thing stands fast, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be revoked.”

15 Then these men came by agreement to the king and said to the king, “Know, O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians that no injunction or ordinance that the king establishes can be changed.”