2 All the king’s servants who were at the king’s gate bowed down and paid 3:2 I.e., great respect and honor to a superiorhomage to Haman; for so the king had commanded regarding him. But Mordecai neither bowed down nor paid 3:2 I.e., great respect and honor to a superiorhomage. 6 But he 3:6 Lit despised in his eyesconsidered it beneath his dignity to 3:6 Lit send a hand againstkill Mordecai alone, for they had told him who the people of Mordecai were; so Haman sought to annihilate all the Jews, the people of Mordecai, who were found throughout the kingdom of Ahasuerus.
7 In the first month, which is the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, 3:7 Lit he cast Pur...beforePur, that is the lot, was cast before Haman from day to day and from month to month,3:7 LXX and the lot fell on the thirteenth day ofuntil the twelfth month, that is the month Adar.
13 Letters were sent by couriers to all the king’s provinces to annihilate, kill, and destroy all the Jews, both young and old, women and children, in one day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to seize their possessions as plunder.