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Esther 3       ISR  HRB  NKJV  KJV  NIV   (Show plain text in new window)
	Haman`s Plot to Destroy the Jews...
1.	After these events Sovereign Ahashwerosh promoted Haman, son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and exalted him and seated him higher than all the princes with him.
2.	And all the sovereign's servants who were in the sovereign's gate bowed and did obeisance to Haman, for so the sovereign had commanded concerning him. But Mordekai would not bow or do obeisance.
3.	And the sovereign's servants who were in the sovereign's gate said to Mordekai, 'Why do you disobey the sovereign's command?'
4.	And it came to be, when they spoke to him daily and he would not listen to them, that they told Haman, to see whether the words of Mordekai would stand - for he had told them that he was a Yehudite.
5.	And when Haman saw that Mordekai did not bow or do obeisance, Haman was filled with wrath.
6.	But it was despicable in his eyes to lay hands on Mordekai alone, for they had informed him of the people of Mordekai. Therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Yehudim who were throughout all the reign of Ahashwerosh, the people of Mordekai.
7.	In the first month, which is the month of Nisan, in the twelfth year of Sovereign Ahashwerosh, someone cast Pur - that is, the lot - before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, until it fell on the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar.
8.	Haman then told Sovereign Ahashwerosh, 'There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of your reign, whose laws are different from all people, and they do not do the sovereign's laws. Therefore it is not in the sovereign's interest to let them remain.
9.	'If it pleases the sovereign, let a decree be written to destroy them, and let me pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who do the work, to bring it into the sovereign's treasuries.'
10.	And the sovereign took his signet ring from his hand and gave it to Haman, son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the enemy of the Yehudim.
11.	And the sovereign said to Haman, 'The silver and the people are given to you, to do with them as seems good to you.'
12.	And the sovereign's scribes were called on the thirteenth day of the first month, and a decree was written according to all that Haman commanded - to the viceroys of the sovereign, and to the governors who were over each province, and to the officials of all people, to every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language. It was written in the name of Sovereign Ahashwerosh, and sealed with the sovereign's signet ring.
13.	And the letters were sent by the runners into all the sovereign's provinces, to cut off, to slay, and to destroy all the Yehudim, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, and to plunder their possessions.
14.	A copy of the writing, to be made law in every province, was published for all people, to be ready for that day.
15.	The runners went out, hastened by the sovereign's command, and the decree was given out in the citadel of Shushan. The sovereign and Haman then sat down to drink, but the city of Shushan was in confusion.

Esther 3