⁹ If it pleases the king, let a decree be issued to destroy them, and I will give ten thousand talents^[a] of silver to the king’s administrators for the royal treasury.”^(A)

¹¹ Haman boasted^(A) to them about his vast wealth, his many sons,^(B) and all the ways the king had honored him and how he had elevated him above the other nobles and officials.

The King’s Edict in Behalf of the Jews

8 That same day King Xerxes gave Queen Esther the estate of Haman,^(A) the enemy of the Jews. And Mordecai came into the presence of the king, for Esther had told how he was related to her.