## Mordecai's Greatness 

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Then King Ahasuerus set forced labor upon the land and the coastlands of the sea. 

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And the entire work of his authority and his might, and the full account of the greatness of Mordecai, whom the king had made _so_ great, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia? 

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For Mordecai the Jew was second _only_ to King Ahasuerus and was great among the Jews and pleasing to his many _fellow_ brothers, one who sought the good of his people and one who spoke for the peace of all his seed.