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So Mordecai told him what had happened and about the promise that Haman had promised the king: ten thousand talents for the royal treasury to bring about the destruction of the Jews.(A) He also gave him a copy of what had been posted in Susa for their destruction, to show to Esther, and he told him to charge her to go in to the king and plead for his favor in behalf of the people. “Remember,” he said, “the days when you were an ordinary person, being brought up under my care, for Haman, who is second to the king, has spoken against us and demands our death. Call upon the Lord; then speak to the king in our behalf and save us from death.”(B)

Hachratheus went in and told her all these things.

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