Chapter One and Two
Chapter Three and Four
Chapter Five and Six
Chapter Seven Eight and Nine
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Chapter One: A drunk king knocks off his queen.
Chapter Two: Esther and Mordechai, the heroes, enter the story.
Chapter Three: Evil Haman gets promoted. He uses his new power to attempt genocide against the Jews.
Chapter Four: The Jews are bummed out; Mordechai tells Esther to plead with the king.
Chapter Five: Esther throws a party for the king and Haman; Haman gleefully builds a gallows for Mordechai.
Chapter Six: Mordechai's star rises as Haman's falls.
Chapter Seven: Haman gets hung.
Chapters Eight and Nine: The Jews prepare for war and kick the behinds of the antisemites; then they throw a party. Purim becomes a permanent holiday.
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Chapter One
Achashverosh, the King of Persia, threw
a great party in the third year of his reign, complete with feasting and
lots of drinking. Everybody came and partied.
When he was drunk as a skunk, the king ordered the queen to come in to show
off her good looks.
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She refused.
So, the king, fearing that his machismo had been threatened, got rid of
her. The Talmud says they brought her head in on a plate.
When she was gone, poor King Achashverosh was lonely.
He wanted another queen to love and cherish. So his ministers advised
him to hold a beauty pageant of all the young women in his vast kingdom.
He agreed, and they sent out men to round up the girls.
Chapter Two
Mordechai, an important leader of the
Jewish community, had a sweet and beautiful adopted daughter, Esther.
(She was his cousin, and some say his wife, but let's keep it simple.)
When the king's men, saw Esther, they dragged her off to join the pageant.
They sent her to the harem, where each of the girls had to undergo a
year of primping before they had their one date with the king.
When Esther went before the king, he was enraptured.
She became his queen, but kept her Jewishness a big secret.
Everyone was happy.
Sort of.
Soon after, two men (who weren't so happy) plotted to assassinate the
king. Mordechai overheard them, and told Esther. She told the king,
thereby saving his dissolute life, and the plotters were hung.
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapters Eight and Nine
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