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He made a decision in the twelfth year of Artaxerxes’ rule, and he threw lots to determine the day and month on which Mordecai’s people would be destroyed in a single day. The lot fell on the fourteenth[a] day of the twelfth month, that is, the month of Adar.[b]

Then Haman said to King Artaxerxes, “A certain group of people exist in pockets among the other peoples throughout your kingdom. Their laws are different from those of everyone else, and they refuse to obey the king’s laws. It is against the king’s interests to put up with them any longer. If the king wishes, perhaps a written order could be sent out that they should be destroyed, and I will contribute ten thousand big sacks[c] of silver to the king’s treasury.”

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Footnotes

  1. Greek Esther 3:7 MT thirteenth day
  2. Greek Esther 3:7 February–March
  3. Greek Esther 3:9 Gk talantas

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