Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
Esther 3:11
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“Keep your money,” said the king to Haman. “These people are given to you to do with them as you please.”
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And the king said unto Haman, The silver [is] given to thee, the people also, to do with them as it seemeth good to thee.
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The king said to Haman, “The silver is given to you, the people also, to do with them as it seems good to you.”
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And the king said unto Haman, The silver is given to thee, the people also, to do with them as it seemeth good to thee.
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Esther 3
9 If it pleases the king, let a decree be issued to destroy them, and I will deposit ten thousand talents of silver into the royal treasury to pay those who carry it out.”
10 So the king removed the signet ring from his finger and gave it to Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews.
11 “Keep your money,” said the king to Haman. “These people are given to you to do with them as you please.”
12 On the thirteenth day of the first month, the royal scribes were summoned and the order was written exactly as Haman commanded the royal satraps, the governors of each province, and the officials of each people, in the script of each province and the language of every people. It was written in the name of King Xerxes and sealed with the royal signet ring.
13 And the letters were sent by couriers to each of the royal provinces with the order to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jews—young and old, women and children—and to plunder their possessions on a single day, the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month.
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