26 Yes, there are many who have lost their minds for women, and become slaves for their sakes. (WEB) 27 Many also have perished, have stumbled, and sinned, for women. (WEB) 28 Now don’t you believe me? Isn’t the king great in his power? Don’t all regions fear to touch him? (WEB) 29 Yet I saw him and Apame the king’s concubine, the daughter of the illustrious Barticus, sitting at the right hand of the king, (WEB) 30 and taking the crown from the king’s head, and setting it upon her own head. Yes, she struck the king with her left hand. (WEB) 31 At this, the king gaped and gazed at her with open mouth. If she smiles at him, he laughs. But if she takes any displeasure at him, he flatters her, that she might be reconciled to him again. (WEB) 32 O sirs, how can it not be that women are strong, seeing they do this?” (WEB) 33 Then the king and the nobles looked at one another. So he began to speak concerning truth. (WEB) 34 “O sirs, aren’t women strong? The earth is great. The sky is high. The sun is swift in its course, for it circles around the sky, and returns on its course again in one day. (WEB) 35 Isn’t he who makes these things great? Therefore the truth is great, and stronger than all things. (WEB) 36 All the earth calls upon truth, and the sky blesses truth. All works shake and tremble, but with truth there is no unrighteous thing. (WEB) 37 Wine is unrighteous. The king is unrighteous. Women are unrighteous. All the children of men are unrighteous, and all their works are unrighteous. There is no truth in them. They shall also perish in their unrighteousness. (WEB)
1 Esdras 4:26–37
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