In the first month, the month of Nisan, in King Ahasuerus’s twelfth year,(A) the pur—that is, the lot—was cast before Haman for each day in each month, and it fell on the twelfth month,(B) the month Adar.(C)

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In the twelfth year of King Xerxes, in the first month, the month of Nisan, the pur(A) (that is, the lot(B)) was cast in the presence of Haman to select a day and month. And the lot fell on[a] the twelfth month, the month of Adar.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Esther 3:7 Septuagint; Hebrew does not have And the lot fell on.