Esther 3:5-7

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⁵ When Haman saw that Mordecai would not bow down to him or ·honor [pay homage to] him, he became ·very angry [enraged]. ⁶ He ·thought of himself as too important [disdained; thought it beneath him] to ·try to kill [lay hands on] only Mordecai. He had been told who the people of Mordecai were, so he looked for a way to destroy all of Mordecai’s people, the Jews, in all of ·Xerxes’ [^LAhasuerus’s] ·kingdom [empire].

⁷ It was in the first month [^CApril] of the twelfth year [^Cabout 474 bc; approximately a year later] of King ·Xerxes’ [^LAhasuerus’s] ·rule [reign]—the month of Nisan. Pur (that is, the lot [^Cdice-like objects]) was thrown before Haman to choose a day and a month. ·So […and; …until] the twelfth month, the month of Adar, was chosen.