23 The case was investigated and found to be correct, and they were both hanged on a tree. And Mordecai's beneficence was written in the king's book of the day's records.

3

1 And after these things king Artaxerxes magnified Haman, the son of Amadath, the Beast, and exalted him, and set his seat above all the princes that were with him;

2 And all those who served with the king who were at the king's gate bowed down and prostrated themselves before Haman, for the king had commanded so. And Mordecai did not bow down or prostrate himself.

3 And those who were at the king's gate said to Mordecai, 'Why do you transgress the king's commandment?'

4 And as they had spoken to him every day, and he would not listen to them, they reported to Haman, to see if Mordecai would stand in his word, for he had told them that he was a Judahite.

5 And when Haman saw that Mordecai did not bow down, nor prostrate himself before him, Haman was filled with wrath.

6 And it seemed to him insignificant to lay his hand on Mordecai alone; but since they had told him what kind of people Mordecai was, Haman planned to destroy all the Jews who were in all the kingdom of Ahasuerus, as the people of Mordecai.

7 In the first month, which is the month of Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast pur, that is, lots, before Haman, day after day, and month after month, in the twelfth month, that is, in the month of Adar.

8 And Haman said to king Ahasuerus, 'There is one people scattered and scattered among the nations in all the provinces of your kingdom; and their laws are different from the laws of all nations, and they do not keep the laws of the king; and the king ought not to leave them like that.

9 If it pleases the king, let it be commanded to destroy them, and ten thousand talents of silver I will put into the hands of the bailiffs, to bring into the king's treasury.

10 Then the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it to Haman the son of Hamadath the Bugeite, to seal the decree against the Jews.

11 And the king said to Haman, 'I give you this money and the people; do with him as you please.

12 And the king's scribes were summoned in the first month, on the thirteenth day thereof, and it was written, as Haman had commanded, to the king's satraps, and to the governors of every province, and to the princes of every nation, in every province thereof, and to every nation in its language, saying, everything was written in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed with the royal ring.