Esther 3:7-9

New American Standard Bible 1995

⁷ In the first month, which is the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, ^[a]Pur, that is the lot, was ^(A)cast before Haman from day to day and from month to month, ^[b]until the twelfth month, that is ^(B)the month Adar. ⁸ Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom; ^(C)their laws are different from those of all other people and they do not observe the king’s laws, so it is not in the king’s interest to let them remain. ⁹ If it is pleasing to the king, let it be ^[c]decreed that they be destroyed, and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who carry on the king’s business, to put into the king’s treasuries.”