¹⁹ If it pleases the king, let a royal ^[a]decree go out from him, and let it be recorded in the laws of the Persians and the Medes, so that it will ^(A)not ^[b]be altered, that Vashti shall come no more before King Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal position to another who is better than she.

²⁰ When the king’s decree which he will make is proclaimed throughout all his empire (for it is great), all wives will ^(A)honor their husbands, both great and small.”