¹³ Esther said, “If it pleases the king, let the Jews who are in Susa be allowed tomorrow also to do according to this day’s edict, and let the ten sons of Haman be hung on the pole.”^(A)

⁴ While the king was inquiring about the goodwill shown by Mordecai—Look! Haman was in the courtyard. The king asked, “Who is in the courtyard?” Now Haman had come to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on the pole that he had prepared.^(A)

⁹ Then Bugathan, one of the eunuchs, said to the king, “Look, Haman has even prepared a pole for Mordecai, who gave information of concern to the king; it is standing at Haman’s house, a pole fifty cubits high.” So the king said, “Let Haman be executed on that.”^(A)

¹⁰ So Haman was hung on the pole that had been prepared for Mordecai. With that the anger of the king abated.^(A)

⁷ The king said to Esther, “Now that I^[a] have granted all of Haman’s property to you and have hung him on a pole because he laid hands on the Jews, what else do you request?^(A)

²⁵ and how he went in to the king, telling him to hang Mordecai, but the wicked plot he had devised against the Jews came back upon himself, and he and his sons were hanged.^(A)