²⁴ For Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, ^(A)the enemy of all the Jews, ^(B)had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and ^(C)had cast Pur (that is, cast lots), to crush and to destroy them.

²⁶ Therefore they called these days Purim, after the term ^(A)Pur. Therefore, because of all that was written in ^(B)this letter, and of what they had faced in this matter, and of what had happened to them,