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The king sent a decree throughout the provinces stating that each man should be master in his own household and speak according to his own language (Esther 1:21–22). The decree was written and circulated across the empire’s peoples and languages (Esther 1:22).
21The saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king did according to the word of Memucan:
22for he sent letters into all the king`s provinces, into every province according to the writing of it, and to every people after their language, that every man should bear rule in his own house, and should speak according to the language of his people.