²⁴ because Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, ^(A)had plotted against the Jews to annihilate them, and had cast Pur (that is, the lot), to consume them and destroy them;

⁵ When Haman saw that Mordecai ^(A)did not bow or pay him homage, Haman was ^(B)filled with wrath. ⁶ But he disdained to lay hands on Mordecai alone, for they had told him of the people of Mordecai. Instead, Haman ^(C)sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus—the people of Mordecai.

⁷ In the first month, which is the month of Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, ^(D)they cast Pur (that is, the lot), before Haman ^[a]to determine the day and the ^[b]month, ^[c]until it fell on the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar.

⁸ Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of your kingdom; ^(E)their laws are different from all other people’s, and they do not keep the king’s laws. Therefore it is not fitting for the king to let them remain. ⁹ If it pleases the king, let a decree be written that they be destroyed, and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who do the work, to bring it into the king’s treasuries.”

¹⁰ So the king ^(F)took ^(G)his signet ring from his hand and gave it to Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the ^(H)enemy of the Jews. ¹¹ And the king said to Haman, “The money and the people are given to you, to do with them as seems good to you.”

^12 (I)Then the king’s scribes were called on the thirteenth day of the first month, and a decree was written according to all that Haman commanded—to the king’s satraps, to the governors who were over each province, to the officials of all people, to every province ^(J)according to its script, and to every people in their language. ^(K)In the name of King Ahasuerus it was written, and sealed with the king’s signet ring. ¹³ And the letters were ^(L)sent by couriers into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate all the Jews, both young and old, little children and women, ^(M)in one day, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, and ^(N)to plunder their ^[d]possessions.

^10 (A)the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews—they killed; ^(B)but they did not lay a hand on the ^[a]plunder.