1 Esdras 3:12-14

Revised Standard Version

¹² The third wrote, “Women are strongest, but truth is victor over all things.”

¹³ When the king awoke, they took the writing and gave it to him, and he read it. ¹⁴ Then he sent and summoned all the nobles of Persia and Media and the satraps and generals and governors and prefects,