Esther 5:13-14

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¹³ Yet all this does me no good so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”^{(A) 14} Then his wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, “Let a pole fifty cubits high be made, and in the morning tell the king to have Mordecai hung on it; then go with the king to the banquet in good spirits.” This advice pleased Haman, and he had the pole made.^(B)