⁴ Now it was when they had spoken daily to him and he would not listen to them, that they told Haman to see whether Mordecai’s reason would ^[a]stand; for he had told them that he was a Jew. ⁵ When Haman saw that ^(A)Mordecai neither bowed down nor paid ^[b]homage to him, Haman was filled with rage. ⁶ But he ^[c]considered it beneath his dignity to ^[d]kill Mordecai alone, for they had told him who the people of Mordecai were; so Haman ^(B)sought to annihilate all the Jews, the people of Mordecai, who were found throughout the kingdom of Ahasuerus.