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Esther 5:12-14
New Catholic Bible
Esther 5:12-14
New Catholic Bible
12 “And even more than this,” Haman added, “Queen Esther invited me as the only one to the banquet with the king today, and tomorrow I am again invited to be her guest with the king. 13 Yet I get no pleasure out of any of this as long as I see that Jew Mordecai seated at the king’s gate.”
14 Then his wife, Zeresh, and all his friends suggested, “Why not have a gibbet set up, fifty cubits high,[a] and in the morning ask the king to have Mordecai hanged on it. Then go to the banquet with the king and enjoy yourself.” Haman liked the idea, and he had the gibbet built.
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- Esther 5:14 Fifty cubits high: the height of the gallows (seventy-five feet) is certainly a hyperbole for effect.
