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The Great Bible 1539
| 6:1 | The same nyght could not the king slepe, and he commaunded to bryng the Chronicles and storyes: whych when they were red before the kyng |
| 6:2 | they happened on the place where it was wrytten, how Mardocheus had told that Bigthana and Theres the kynges two chamberlaynes (which kept the thresholdes) sought, to laye handes on kyng Ahasuerus. |
| 6:3 | And the kyng sayd: what worshyppe & good haue we done to Mardocheus therfore? Then sayde the kynges seruauntes that mynistred vnto hym: There is nothynge at all done for hym. |
| 6:4 | And the kyng sayde: Who is in the courte? (for Haman was gone into the court wythout before the kinges house, that he myght speake vnto the kynge to hange Mardocheus on the tre, that he had prepared for hym.) |
| 6:5 | And the kynges seruauntes sayde vnto hym: beholde, Haman standeth without in the court. And the kyng sayd: let him come in. |
| 6:6 | And when Haman came in, the kyng sayd vnto hym: what shall be done vnto the man, whom the the kynge volde fayne brynge vnto worshippe? Haman thought in his hert: Whom desyreth the kyng to bryng vnto worshippe more then me? |
| 6:7 | And Haman answered the kyng Let the man whom the kyng pleaseth to bring vnto worshippe, be brought hyther, |
| 6:8 | that he maye be arayed with the royall garmentes which the kyng vseth to weare: & the horse that the kyng rydeth vpon, and that the crowne royall maye be set vpon his heed. |
| 6:9 | And let this rayment and horse be delyuered vnder the hand of one of the kynges princes, that they maye araye the man withall (whom the kyng is disposed to bryng to honoure) & cary hym vpon the horse thorow the strete of the cytie, and proclayme before him: thus shalt it be done to the man, whom the kynge pleaseth to bryng to honoure. |
| 6:10 | And the kyng sayde: make hast, and take as thou hast sayde, the rayment & the horse: and do euen so vnto Mardocheus the Iewe, that sytteth before the kynges gate, & let nothing fayle of all that thou hast spoken. |
| 6:11 | Then toke Haman the rayment & the horse, and arayed Mardocheus, and brought him on horsbacke thorow the strete of the cytie, and proclaymed before him: Euen thus shall it be done vnto the man whom the kyng is disposed to honoure. |
| 6:12 | And Mardocheus came agayne to the kynges gate, but Haman gat hym home in all the hast mournynge bare headed, |
| 6:13 | and tolde Zares his wyfe and all hys frendes, euery thing that had happened him. Then sayd his wyse men and Zares his wyfe vnto him: It yf be Mardocheus, of the sede of the Iewes, before whom thou hast begonne to fall, thou shalt not preuayle agaynst hym, but shalt surely fall before him. |
| 6:14 | And whyle they were yet talkyng with him, came the kynges chamberlaynes, & caused Haman to make hast, to come vnto the bancket that Esther had prepared. |
The Great Bible 1539
The Great Bible of 1539 was the first authorized edition of the Bible in English, authorized by King Henry VIII of England to be read aloud in the church services of the Church of England. The Great Bible was prepared by Myles Coverdale, working under commission of Thomas, Lord Cromwell, Secretary to Henry VIII and Vicar General. In 1538, Cromwell directed the clergy to provide "one book of the bible of the largest volume in English, and the same set up in some convenient place within the said church that ye have care of, whereas your parishioners may most commodiously resort to the same and read it."