Esther 1:19-21

Contemporary English Version

¹⁹ Your Majesty, if you agree, you should write for the Medes and Persians a law that can never be changed. This law would keep Queen Vashti from ever seeing you again. Then you could let someone who respects you be queen in her place.

²⁰ When the women in your great kingdom hear about this new law, they will respect their husbands, no matter if they are rich or poor.

²¹ King Xerxes and his officials liked what Memucan had said,