Esther 3:5-7

Common English Bible

⁵ When Haman himself saw that Mordecai didn’t kneel or bow down to him, he became very angry. ⁶ But he decided not to kill only Mordecai, for people had told him Mordecai’s race. Instead, he planned to wipe out all the Jews, Mordecai’s people, throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus. ⁷ In the first month (that is, the month of Nisan)^[a] in the twelfth year of the rule of King Ahasuerus, servants threw pur, namely, dice, in front of Haman to find the best day for his plan. They tried every day and every month, and the dice chose the thirteenth^[b] day of the twelfth month (that is, the month of Adar).