⁸ Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered and separated among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom; ^(A)their laws are different from those of all other people, and they do not do the king’s laws, so it is not worth it for the king to let them remain. ⁹ If it seems good to the king, let it be written down that they should perish, and I will pay ^[a]10,000 talents of silver into the hands of those who do this work, to bring into the king’s treasuries.”

¹² Then they came near and ^(A)said before the king concerning the king’s injunction, “Did you not sign an injunction that any man who seeks to make a petition ^[a]to any god or man besides you, O king, for thirty days, is to be cast into the lions’ den?” The king answered and said, “The word is certain, according to the ^(B)law of the Medes and Persians, which ^[b]may not be revoked.” ¹³ Then they answered and said before the king, “^(C)Daniel, who is one of the ^[c]exiles from Judah, pays ^(D)no attention to you, O king, or to the injunction which you signed, but keeps seeking to make his petition three times a day.”