Esther 1:21

In context

19If it pleases the king, let a royal word go out from him and be written among the laws of Persia and Media, never to be revoked: that Vashti shall not come again before King Ahasuerus, and that the king shall give her royal rank to another woman, better than she. 20Then, when the king’s pronouncement is heard through all his realm — vast as it is — every wife will honor her husband, from the greatest to the least.” 21The proposal pleased the king and the officials, and the king did as Memucan had said. 22He sent letters to all the king’s provinces — to each province in its own script and to each people in its own language — that every man should be master in his own house and speak the language of his own people.