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23 Thus the Jews fully accepted what they had started to do and what Mordecai had written to them. 24 For Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the adversary of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to cause them to perish and (A)had cast Pur, that is the lot, to throw them into confusion and cause them to perish. 25 But (B)when it came before the king, he said by letter (C)that his evil scheme, which he had [a]devised against the Jews, (D)should return on his own head and that he and his sons should be hanged on the [b]gallows.

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Footnotes

  1. Esther 9:25 Lit schemed
  2. Esther 9:25 Lit tree, cf. Deut 21:22-23