And when he learned of Mordecai’s ethnic identity, Haman decided not to do away with[a] Mordecai alone. He planned to destroy all of Mordecai’s people, the Jews,(A) throughout Ahasuerus’s kingdom.(B)

In the first month, the month of Nisan,[b] in King Ahasuerus’s twelfth year,[c](C) Pur (that is, the lot) was cast before Haman for each day in each month, and it fell on the twelfth month,(D) the month Adar.[d](E)

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Footnotes

  1. Esther 3:6 Lit to stretch out a hand against
  2. Esther 3:7 = March–April; called Abib in the pre-exilic period; Ex 13:4; Dt 16:1
  3. Esther 3:7 474 b.c.
  4. Esther 3:7 = February–March

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