Esther 3:8-9

Christian Standard Bible

⁸ Then Haman informed King Ahasuerus, “There is one ethnic group, scattered throughout the peoples in every province of your kingdom,^(A) keeping themselves separate. Their laws are different from everyone else’s and they do not obey the king’s laws.^(B) It is not in the king’s best interest to tolerate them.^{(C) 9} If the king approves, let an order be drawn up authorizing their destruction, and I will pay 375 tons of silver to^[a] the officials for deposit in the royal treasury.”^(D)