¹⁸ The judges ^(A)shall investigate thoroughly, and if the witness is a false witness and he has ^[a]accused his brother falsely, ¹⁹ then ^(B)you shall do to him just as he had intended to do to his brother. Thus you shall purge the evil from among you.

^10 (A)So they hanged Haman on the ^[a]gallows which he had prepared for Mordecai, ^(B)and the king’s anger subsided.