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ES-3:1 After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the
son of Hammedatha
the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the
princes that [were]
with him.
ES-3:2 And all the king's servants, that [were] in the king's
gate, bowed, and
reverenced Haman: for the king had so commanded concerning him.
But Mordecai bowed
not, nor did [him] reverence.
ES-3:3 Then the king's servants, which [were] in the king's
gate, said unto
Mordecai, Why transgressest thou the king's commandment?
ES-3:4 Now it came to pass, when they spake daily unto him, and
he hearkened not
unto them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai's
matters would stand: for
he had told them that he [was] a Jew.
ES-3:5 And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not, nor did him
reverence, then was
Haman full of wrath.
ES-3:6 And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for
they had showed him
the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all
the Jews that [were]
throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, [even] the people of
Mordecai.
ES-3:7 In the first month, that [is], the month Nisan, in the
twelfth year of king
Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that [is], the lot, before Haman from
day to day, and from
month to month, [to] the twelfth [month], that [is], the month
Adar.
ES-3:8 And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain
people scattered
abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of
thy kingdom; and their
laws [are] diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's
laws: therefore it
[is] not for the king's profit to suffer them.
ES-3:9 If it please the king, let it be written that they may
be destroyed: and I
will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those
that have the charge
of the business, to bring [it] into the king's treasuries.
ES-3:10 And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it
unto Haman the son of
Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy.
ES-3:11 And the king said unto Haman, The silver [is] given to
thee, the people
also, to do with them as it seemeth good to thee.
ES-3:12 Then were the king's scribes called on the thirteenth
day of the first
month, and there was written according to all that Haman had
commanded unto the
king's lieutenants, and to the governors that [were] over every
province, and to the
rulers of every people of every province according to the
writing thereof, and [to]
every people after their language; in the name of king Ahasuerus
was it written, and
sealed with the king's ring.
ES-3:13 And the letters were sent by posts into all the king's
provinces, to
destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young
and old, little
children and women, in one day, [even] upon the thirteenth [day]
of the twelfth
month, which is the month Adar, and [to take] the spoil of them
for a prey.
ES-3:14 The copy of the writing for a commandment to be given
in every province was
published unto all people, that they should be ready against
that day.
ES-3:15 The posts went out, being hastened by the king's
commandment, and the
decree was given in Shushan the palace. And the king and Haman
sat down to drink;
but the city Shushan was perplexed.
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