¹⁷ For this deed of the queen will come abroad unto all women, to make their husbands contemptible in their eyes, when it shall be reported, The king Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she came not. ¹⁸ And this day will the princesses of Persia and Media who have heard of the deed of the queen ^[a]say the like unto all the king’s princes. So will there arise ^[b]much contempt and wrath. ¹⁹ If it please the king, let there go forth a royal commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, ^[c]that it be not altered, that Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate ^[d]unto another that is better than she.