1 Esdras 3:6
“As to be clothed in purple, to drink in golde, and to sleepe vpon golde, and a chariot with bridles of golde, and an head-tyre of fine linen, and a chaine about his necke:”
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1 Esdras 3:6 Context
4Then three yong men that were of the guard, that kept the kings body, spake one to another: 5Let euery one of vs speake a sentence: hee that shall ouercome, & whose sentence shall seeme wiser then the others, vnto him shall the king Darius giue great gifts, and great things in token of victory: 6As to be clothed in purple, to drink in golde, and to sleepe vpon golde, and a chariot with bridles of golde, and an head-tyre of fine linen, and a chaine about his necke: 7And hee shall sit next to Darius, because of his wisedome, and shalbe called, Darius his cousin. 8And then euery one wrote his sentence, sealed it, and laide it vnder king Darius his pillow,
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As, to be clothed in purple, to drink in gold, and to sleep upon gold, and a chariot with bridles of gold, and an headtire of fine linen, and a chain about his neck:
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