1 Esdras 4:11-16
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11 And these keep watch round about him, neither may any one depart, and do his own business, neither disobey they him in any thing.
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12 O ye men, how should not the king be mightiest, when in such sort he is obeyed? And he held his tongue.
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13 Then the third, who had spoken of women, and of the truth, (this was Zorobabel) began to speak.
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14 O ye men, it is not the great king, nor the multitude of men, neither is it wine, that excelleth; who is it then that ruleth them, or hath the lordship over them? are they not women?
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15 Women have borne the king and all the people that bear rule by sea and land.
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16 Even of them came they: and they nourished them up that planted the vineyards, from whence the wine cometh.