40 ^vYou shall be over my house, and all my people shall order themselves as you command.¹ Only as regards the throne will I be greater than you.”

3 For Mordecai the Jew was ^bsecond in rank to King Ahasuerus, and he was great among the Jews and popular with the multitude of his brothers, for he ^csought the welfare of his people and spoke peace to all his people.