Greek Esther 3:5-7

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⁵ So when Haman learned that Mordecai was not doing obeisance to him, he became furiously angry^{(A) 6} and resolved to destroy all the Jews under Artaxerxes’s rule.

⁷ In the twelfth year of the reign of Artaxerxes, Haman^[a] came to a decision and cast lots, taking the days and the months one by one, to fix on one day to destroy the whole people of Mordecai. The lot fell on the fourteenth^[b] day of the month of Adar.^(B)