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Additions to Esther 16:7

This may be proued not onely by olde histories, but also by those things that are before our eyes, and are wickedly committed of suche pestilences as are not worthie to beare rule.

Parallel Translations

KJVView canonical →
Now ye may see this, as we have declared, not so much by ancient histories, as ye may, if ye search what hath been wickedly done of late through the pestilent behaviour of them that are unworthily placed in authority.
King James Version