¹⁸ The judges must make a thorough investigation,^(A) and if the witness proves to be a liar, giving false testimony against a fellow Israelite,

¹⁹ then do to the false witness as that witness intended to do to the other party.^(A) You must purge the evil from among you.

¹⁰ So they impaled^(A) Haman^(B) on the pole^(C) he had set up for Mordecai.^(D) Then the king’s fury subsided.^(E)