14;
14 A copy of the text of the edict
was to be issued as law in every province and made known to the people
of every nationality so they would be ready for that day. (5)
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11 “Keep the money,”
the king said to Haman, “and do with the people as you please.”
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10 So the king took
his signet ring from his finger and gave it to Haman son of Hammedatha, the
Agagite, the enemy of the Jews.
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9 If
it pleases the king, let a decree be issued to destroy them, and I will give ten
thousand talents of silver to the king’s administrators for the
royal treasury.” (9)
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8 Then Haman said to
King Xerxes, “There is a certain people dispersed among the peoples in all the
provinces of your kingdom who keep themselves separate. Their customs are different
from those of all other people, and they do not obey the
king’s laws; it is not in the king’s best interest to tolerate them.
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7 In the twelfth year of King
Xerxes, in the first
month,
the month of Nisan, the pur
(that is, the lot) was cast in the presence of Haman to select a day and month.
And the lot fell on the twelfth month, the month of Adar.
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15 The
couriers went out, spurred on by the king’s command, and the edict was issued
in the citadel of Susa. The king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of
Susa was bewildered. (6)
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6 Yet
having learned who Mordecai’s people were, he scorned the idea of killing only
Mordecai. Instead Haman looked for a way to destroy all Mordecai’s people, the
Jews, throughout the whole kingdom of Xerxes. (6)
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5 When Haman saw that
Mordecai would not kneel down or pay him honor, he was enraged.
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12 Then
on the thirteenth day of the first month
the royal secretaries were summoned. They wrote out in the script of each
province and in the language of each people all Haman’s orders to the king’s
satraps, the governors of the various provinces and the nobles of the various
peoples. These were written in the name of King Xerxes himself and sealed with
his own ring. (3)
13 Dispatches were sent
by couriers to all the king’s provinces with the order to destroy, kill and
annihilate all the Jews—young and old, women and children—on a single day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, and to plunder
their goods.
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Haman’s Plot to
Destroy the Jews
3 After these events,
King Xerxes honored Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, elevating him and
giving him a seat of honor higher than that of all the other nobles.
2 All the royal
officials at the king’s gate knelt down and paid honor to Haman, for the king
had commanded this concerning him. But Mordecai would not kneel down or pay him
honor.
3 Then
the royal officials at the king’s gate asked Mordecai, “Why do you disobey the
king’s command?” (3)
4 Day after day they
spoke to him but he refused to comply. Therefore they told Haman about it to
see whether Mordecai’s behavior would be tolerated, for he had told them he was
a Jew.
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